How do you simplify sqrtasqrt5?

1 Answer
Mar 3, 2018

Use this rule for radicals to simplify the expression:

sqrt(color(red)(a)) * sqrt(color(blue)(b)) = sqrt(color(red)(a) * color(blue)(b))

sqrt(color(red)(5))sqrt(color(blue)(a)) => sqrt(color(red)(5) * color(blue)(a)) => sqrt(5a)