Simplify square root 50y^15 (inside the radical) assume y represents a positive real number

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We can break it into parts:
$√(50) * \sqrt{ y^(15) }$

50=25*2 and y^15=y^9*y^4*y^2

so it becomes
5 √(2) *y^6=5 y^(6) √(2)

Bala Vishnu answered May 4, 2018

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