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We don't like knocking people down to size, but we do like simplifying radicals. Join us?
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- 00:04
Simplifying Radicals, a la Shmoop. Blossom the hippie misses the good ol' simple
- 00:09
life. Everything nowadays is too complicated. ( Todd, maybe add more storyline here?)
- 00:13
She wishes everything were simplified. So even though sometimes things like the inside
- 00:15
of her computer shouldn't be simplified, she still does it.
- 00:15
Thankfully though, on her math homework, when she sees the number root 54 scribbled on her
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- 00:19
homework, the instructions tell her to simplify it.
- 00:23
In the case of radicals, simplifying means to find another expression with the same value,
- 00:29
not to find a decimal approximation of the radical.
- 00:33
We start by finding any two factors of 54, numbers that can divide 54 and leave a remainder
- 00:44
of zero. Say...9 and 6. Then continue simplifying until we're only left with prime factors.
- 00:51
We can factor 9 into 3 and 3...and 6 by 3 and 2. No one likes to be lonely...so let's
- 01:07
pair up repeated numbers and take them out of the radical...3 and 3 pair up...and we're
- 01:16
left with 3 and 2. Since they don't have any potential partners, we can just multiply the
- 01:31
numbers back togetherÉ Éleaving us with 3 root 6.
- 01:36
Ah..the simple life.
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