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#1 2006-06-06 09:59:36
- Morgan82
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please help with RADICALS!
hey..........how do you simplify this.......
8 times the square root of 3 divided by the square root of 2
plz help me understand
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#2 2006-06-06 10:42:00
- luca-deltodesco
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Re: please help with RADICALS!
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#3 2006-06-06 12:58:51
- Ricky
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Re: please help with RADICALS!
As luca said:
and
But only when a and b are nonnegative.
"In the real world, this would be a problem. But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist. So we'll go ahead and do that now..."
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#4 2006-06-12 03:40:05
- the_wildcats
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Re: please help with RADICALS!
I would put radical of 3 and 2 into the calculator, get the approximate decimal numbers, and then multiply and divide in the order of which they appear:P
#5 2006-06-12 03:41:07
- the_wildcats
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Re: please help with RADICALS!
radical and square root are the same thing by the way 
:P:P
#6 2006-06-12 13:19:39
- Ricky
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Re: please help with RADICALS!
wildcats, sometimes, being approximate isn't good enough. For an engineer, it usually is. This is why we (or at least I) hate them. 
"In the real world, this would be a problem. But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist. So we'll go ahead and do that now..."
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#7 2006-06-13 02:45:17
- krassi_holmz
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Re: please help with RADICALS!
wildcats, sometimes, being approximate isn't good enough. For an engineer, it usually is. This is why we (or at least I) hate them.
Hate who???:P
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