How do you simplify sqrt(15/36)?
1 Answer
May 3, 2017
Explanation:
Here are a couple of identities we will use:
If
sqrt(a/b) = sqrt(a)/sqrt(b)
If
sqrt(a^2) = a
Example
When given
Instead, we can proceed as follows:
sqrt(15/36) = sqrt(15/6^2) = sqrt(15)/sqrt(6^2) = sqrt(15)/6