Beaconhouse School System

Boys Campus, Canal Side

Worksheet of SURDS Class: IXC’s

SURDS: √ ; √ √ √ respectively, these roots cannot be evaluated exactly. They are called

Surds.

Conjugates Surds: The product of √ √ and √ √ is a rational number and we call

these surds conjugate surds. Conjugate surds may be used to rationalize the denominator, that is ,

to change the denominator, which contain surds, to a rational number.

√
1. Example: 1 a) √ b) c) ( √ )( √ )
√

Sol: √ Sol: √ Sol: √ √

√ √ √ √

√ √

√ √

√ √
2. Example: 2 a) b) c)
√ √ √ √

√ √ √ √ √ √
Sol: Sol: Sol:
√ √ √ √ √ √ √ √

√ ( √ ) ( √ √ )( √ √ )
(√ ) ( √ ) ( √ )

( √ ) √ √

( √ ) √

√
( √ )

( √ )
√

( √ )

√
 Practice Questions SURDS
Q1. Simplify the followings:

√
a) √ b) √ c) √ √ d) √ √ e)
√

e) √ √ f) √ √ g) √ √ √ h) √ √ √

i) ( √ )( √ ) j) ( √ )( √ ) k) ( √ )( √ )

l) ( √ ) m) ( √ ) n) (√ )(√ ) o) ( √ √ )( √ √ )

Q2. By rationalizing the denominator, simplify the followings:

a) b) c) d) e)
√ √ √ √ √

√ √
f) g) h) i)
√ ( (√ )) ( √ ) √

√ √ √ √
j) k)
√ √ √ √