math help!?

Question

when your doing radicals, the outside number, can you add and multiply to that number?? (i.e) 9*RADICAL*5 times 35 plus 8.

Can you times the 35 and add the 8 onto the 9?

Answer 1

No. Why would you be able to?

A * (something) + B * (the same thing) = (A+B) * (that thing)

But A * (something) + B * (something DIFFERENT) cannot be combined as straightforwardly.