How do you simplify the 9 square root 125?

1 Answer
Mar 11, 2018

Radical form simplified: 45sqrt5
Decimal form simplified: Around 100.62

Explanation:

By 9 square root 125 I suppose you mean 9sqrt125.

I'm not sure whether you want the simplified version to be in radical form or decimal form, but I'll show both.

Radical form :
To simplify this radical further, we have to see if the thing inside the sqrt has factors that are squarerootable (that's not a word). We know that 125 is divisible by 25, and 25 can be square rooted to 5. So sqrt(125) = sqrt(5 * 25) = 5sqrt5.

Remember we still have the 9 in front, meaning that it becomes:
9 * 5sqrt5 = 45sqrt5

Decimal form :
First, we plug into the calculator sqrt125 to find the value of that, which is about 11.18. Then we multiply this by 9 and get about 100.62

Hope this helps!