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Simplifying Radicals Guide

1. Simplify radicals by extracting common factors from the radicand and reducing indexes that are greater than the exponent of the radicand. 2. Fractional radicands should be converted to radical form by dividing the radicand and index. 3. Radicals cannot have denominators, so expressions with radicals in the denominator must be converted to have radicals only in the numerator.

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Simplifying Radicals Guide

1. Simplify radicals by extracting common factors from the radicand and reducing indexes that are greater than the exponent of the radicand. 2. Fractional radicands should be converted to radical form by dividing the radicand and index. 3. Radicals cannot have denominators, so expressions with radicals in the denominator must be converted to have radicals only in the numerator.

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There is no factor in the radicand that can still be

1. extracted as a root

2. The radicand is not in fraction form

3. There is no radical in the denominator.

4. The index is greater than the exponent of the radicand.

The index and the exponents of the radicand have no


5. common factor except 1.
Simplify each Radical.
3 4 8
1. 48 2. 54 3. 4 4. 𝑥12
4 8
16(3)
3
27(2) 22 𝑥 12
3 3 2 1 12 3
16 ( 3) 27 ( 2) 24 22 𝑥8 𝑥2
3
4 3 3 2 2 𝑥3 = 𝑥 2 (𝑥)
𝟑
𝟒 𝟑 3 𝟐 𝟐 𝒙 𝒙
3
1 1 3 2 2
5. = 6. = 3
2 3 3
2
3 3
1 2 2 32
3 𝟑
2 2 3 𝟑𝟐
3 3 3
1∗ 2 1𝑥2 2∗ 9 2𝑥9
3 3 3
2∗ 2 2𝑥2 3∗ 9 27
3 𝟑
2 𝟐 18 𝟏𝟖
3
22 𝟐 33 𝟑
𝟏
7.
𝟐+ 𝟑
1 2− 3
2+ 3 2− 3
𝟏 𝟐− 𝟑 𝟐− 𝟑
(𝟐 + 𝟑)(𝟐 − 𝟑) (𝟐)𝟐 −( 𝟑)𝟐

𝟐− 𝟑 𝟐− 𝟑 𝟐− 𝟑
𝟒 − ( 𝟑)𝟐 𝟒−𝟑 𝟏

𝟐− 𝟑
Simplify each Radical.

3 4 6
1. 128 2. 56 3. 64 4. (𝑎𝑏)8
𝟑 𝟑
𝟖 𝟐 𝟐 𝟕 𝟐 𝟐 𝒂𝒃 𝒂𝒃
5 3 2𝑥
5. 6.
7 3𝑦

𝟑
𝟑𝟓 𝟏𝟖𝒙𝒚𝟐
𝟕 𝟑𝒚
𝟏 𝒙
7. 8.
𝟐+ 𝟐 𝒙− 𝒚

𝟐− 𝟐 𝒙 𝒙−𝒙 𝒚
𝟐 𝒙−𝒚

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