How do you simplify $3 sqrt 2 + 2 sqrt2$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-04-07T16:54:43

$5sqrt(2)$

We can treat this like simple algebra

For example $3a + 2a = 5a$ Just collecting like terms

As the roots are the same, you can simply just add the like terms.

So in this case $a= sqrt(2)$

$=> 5sqrt2$

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