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I am simplifying radicals and I've come across one that has me a bit confused.

sqrt(34m^4)


I'm sorry if this doesn't make sense. (-:

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The sqrt of (34 m^4) is sqrt(34) times sqrt(m^4).

The sqrt of m^4 is easy ... that's just m^2 .

The other part is more messy. There's not much you can do with it.

sqrt(34) = sqrt(17) times sqrt(2).

That doesn't help make it any simpler.
You might as well just leave it as sqrt(34).

Then the final, simplified form of the original expression is

m^2 sqrt(34)
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