How do you simplify 5/ square root of 6?

1 Answer
Jun 20, 2018

=(5sqrt6)/6 (rationalized denominator)
or
~~2.04 (decimal form, rounded to nearest hundredth's place)

Explanation:

First, let's translate this into math:

5/sqrt6

To simplify this, we need to rationalize, or simplify the denominator so that it only contains rational numbers. To do so, multiply both the numerator and denominator by color(blue)sqrt6:
5/sqrt6 color(blue)(*sqrt6/sqrt6)

=(5sqrt6)/sqrt36

=(5sqrt6)/6

The answer in decimal form (rounded to nearest hundredth's place) is ~~2.04.

Hope this helps!