How do you simplify the square root of 240?

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-18T19:09:39

Find any perfect squares that are a factor of the number:

$16$ $"is a perfect square of"$ $4, "and"$ $240$ $"is divisible by 16;"$

$sqrt(240)=>$

$sqrt(16*15)=>$

$4*sqrt(15)$

There is no other perfect square in 15, so this is the final answer:

$4*sqrt(15)$