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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Simplify the folling square roots in radical form 3(Square root)12

OpenStudy (anonymous):

So your equation is \[3\sqrt{12}\], right?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Yea

OpenStudy (whpalmer4):

Okay, do you know how to factor that \(12\) underneath the square root sign?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Just figured it out whpalmer

OpenStudy (whpalmer4):

what did you get?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Wait I was thinking of something else I don't understand it..

OpenStudy (whpalmer4):

Okay, what are the smallest numbers you can multiply together (as many of them as you need) to get a product of 12?

OpenStudy (witty_roger):

you can write 12 as 4*3...since 4 is a perfect square..you could take it out of the square root sign and write as 2

OpenStudy (witty_roger):

hence the expression is simplified as 6 sqrt(3)

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