Question

Could you help me with this.

Express in simplest radical form.
162

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Answer 1

The square root of 162 in its simplest form means to get the number 162 inside the radical √ as low as possible.

Here is how to do that! First we write the square root of 162 like this:

√162

The largest perfect square of the factors of 162 is 81. We can therefore convert √162 like this:

√81 × 2

Next, we separate the numbers inside the √ as such:

√81 × √2

√81 is a perfect square that equals 9. We can therefore put 9 outside the radical and get the final answer to square root of 162 in simplest radical form as follows:

9√2

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