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What is the following difference 11 square root 45 -4 square root 5

User Taheem
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Your problem looks like this


11√(45)  - 4√(5)

To make this problem easier, we need to simplify these square roots


11√(45)
can be simplified

Here's how :

The factors of 45 are 9 and 5

9 is a perfect square root, but 5 is not

Think of the problem like this


√(9)     ×     √(5)

The square root of 9 is 3, but 5 has no perfect square root

Now
11√(45) is simplified to
33√(5)

Now let's solve the problem, because we have a common square root of 5


33√(5) - 4\sqrt{5}[/tex]

Our final answer is


29√(5)

Feel free to ask questions if you are confused! Hope I helped :)

User Tanzeel
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For this case we must simplify the following expression:


11 \sqrt {45} -4 \sqrt {5}

So, we rewrite 45 as
3 ^ 2 * 5:


11 \sqrt {3 ^ 2 * 5} -4 \sqrt {5} =

We have by definition of properties of powers and roots that:


\sqrt [n] {a ^ m} = a ^ {\frac {m} {n}}

So:


11 * 3 \sqrt {5} -4 \sqrt {5} =\\33 \sqrt {5} -4 \sqrt {5} =\\29 \sqrt {5}

Answer:


29 \sqrt {5}

User Dozatron
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