How do you simplify sqrt(2b^5)/sqrt(14c^2)2b514c2?

1 Answer
Apr 25, 2017

See below.

Explanation:

As you can see, you can't just directly take the square root and be done, or you wouldn't be simplifying correctly. Here is what I would do:

sqrt(2b^5)/sqrt(14c^2)2b514c2

sqrt(2b * b^2 * b^2)/ sqrt(14 * c * c)2bb2b214cc

(b^2sqrt(2b))/(csqrt(14))b22bc14

(b^2sqrt(2)* sqrt(b))/(c* sqrt(2)* sqrt(7))b22bc27

(b^2 * sqrt(b))/(c * sqrt(7))b2bc7

(b^2 sqrt(b))/(c sqrt(7))b2bc7

This would be your final answer.

I hope that helps!