How do you simplify $sqrt 2 times sqrt 2$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-06-03T04:41:51

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$sqrt(a) * sqrt(b) = sqrt(a*b)$

so in our case:

$sqrt(2) * sqrt(2) = sqrt(2*2)$

which then simplifies into:

$sqrt(4)$

which then can be further simplified into:

2

to double check this answer, $2*2 = 4$ which is the same as $sqrt(4)$

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