How do you simplify sqrt(1+x) + sqrt(1-x)?

1 Answer
Nov 8, 2015

You square the equation and solve normally. The answer is 2.

Explanation:

Since both parts of the equation are being square rooted you can square the whole equation to turn sqrt(1+x) + sqrt(1-x) to 1+x+1-x. Your then solve that expression normally to get you final answer.

Step by step:
sqrt(1+x) + sqrt(1-x)
1+x+1-x
1+1+x-x
Now we conbine the x's and ones to get our final answer of 2