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What I need is some help finding the steps to answer this Dividing Radical Algebra 2 Problem.If anyone can help I would appreciate it.
Thanx.
√5 (Minus) √3
divided by
√3+√5

2007-01-11 15:00:21 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Mathematics

1 answers

The most obvious way to simplify this fraction is to multiply the top and bottom by √3 - √5. This will give you minus 2 in the denominator, and in the numerator:

(√5 - √3)(√3 - √5) = (2√15) - 8

Since we have -2 in the denominator, we end up with

4 - √15, very close to zero.

2007-01-11 15:07:53 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 0 0

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