How do you simplify $sqrt5 times sqrt5$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-04-18T08:19:29

$sqrt(5)xxsqrt(5)=5$

By definition, $sqrt(x)$ is a value whose square is $x$ , that is, $sqrt(x)xxsqrt(x)=x$ for any $x$ .

If $x>=0$ , then $sqrt(x)$ denotes the unique non negative value with that property.

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