How do you rationalize the denominator and simplify $sqrt(5/8)$ ?

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How do you rationalize the denominator and simplify $sqrt(5/8)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2017-05-19T14:53:43

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Let us write it as:
$sqrt(5)/sqrt(8)$
multiply and divide by $sqrt(8)$
$sqrt(5)/sqrt(8)*sqrt(8)/sqrt(8)=(sqrt(5)sqrt(8))/8=sqrt(40)/8=(sqrt(4*10))/8=2sqrt(10)/8=sqrt(10)/4$

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