Did you know?
Did you know that simplifying radical expressions involves finding the factors of the numbers inside the square root and simplifying as much as possible? For example, the simplified form of √140 is 2√35 because 140 can be factored into 2 * 2 * 5 * 7, and the square root of each factor can be simplified. Similarly, the simplified form of √48n^9 is 4n^4√3 because 48 can be factored into 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 3, and n^9 can be simplified to n^4. Moreover, the simplified form of 3√5c times √15c^3 is 3c√75c^4 because 5 and 15 can be factored into their prime factors, and c^1 can also be simplified to c^4. Lastly, the radical expression in simplified form is √6/5y, which cannot be simplified any further because 6 and 5 have no common factors and there are no other ways to simplify the expression.
