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I'm supposed to be simplifying radical expressions and I'm very confused.

I'm supposed to be simplifying radical expressions and I'm very confused.-example-1
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hello,

the question presented deals with surds and basic knowledge or rules of surds would make it easy to simplify


3√(6)\text{ }-\text{ 4}√(6)

note: both of them have identical roots i.e square root of 6 so we can easily subtract it


\begin{gathered} 3√(6)-\text{ 4}√(6) \\ \text{the roots are identical i.e }√(6) \end{gathered}

since they're both identical, they'll have the same root


\begin{gathered} 3√(6)\text{ }-\text{ 4}√(6) \\ (3-4)√(6) \\ -1√(6)\text{ = }-√(6) \end{gathered}

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