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Simplifying a square root?

Asked by tranquilsea (17775points) April 28th, 2011

My mind, for some unknown reason, is drawing a blank as to why this is so:

If I have an expression: 28 + 7 square root of 2 over 14…why is the simplified expression 4+ the square root of 2 over 2?

What factor is used to knock the seven out and leave the 4 over the 2?

This is almost as bad as when I forgot how to spell “the”. That was a bad day

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