How do you simplify sqrt(36x^3)36x3?

1 Answer
Mar 24, 2015

Extract the largest squares from the terms of the square root argument and remove them from within the square root.

36 = 6^236=62
x^3 = (x^2) (x)x3=(x2)(x)

So
sqrt(36x^3)36x3
= sqrt(6^2*x^2*x)=62x2x
= sqrt(6^2)*sqrt(x^2)*sqrt(x)=62x2x
= 6x sqrt(x)=6xx