How do you simplify (3sqrt R )/ (3 sqrtx)?

1 Answer
Sep 4, 2015

(3sqrt(R))/(3sqrt(x)) = sqrt(R/x)

Explanation:

(color(red)(3sqrt(R)))/(color(blue)(3sqrt(x)))

= color(red)(3 * sqrt(R)) * color(blue)(1/3 * 1/sqrt(x))

= cancel(color(red)(3))*1/cancel(color(blue)(3))*color(red)(sqrt(R))/color(blue)(sqrt(x))

= sqrt(color(red)(R)/color(blue)(x)