How do you simplify $sqrt(4x+1)*-sqrt(x-2)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-05-03T20:37:59

$(sqrt(4x+1))*(-sqrt(x-2))$

$= - sqrt((4x+1)(x-2))$

$=-sqrt(4x^2-7x-2)$

(I don't know that this is really "simplified", but here is no obvious place to go from here)

How do you simplify sqrt(4x+1)*-sqrt(x-2)sqrt(4x+1)*-sqrt(x-2)?