Question

How do you simplify `sqrt300`?

Answer 1

Try to factorise `300` and see if there are any squares in it.

Explanation:

It's easy to see that `300=3*100=3*10^2`

Now we can take the `10^2` outside the root:

`=sqrt(3*10^2)=sqrt(10^2)*sqrt3=10sqrt3`