1 - Adair County Schools

To reduce the 50 and the 18, I find the biggest perfect square that goes into each one. 50 breaks up into . 25. x 2 and 18 into . 9. x 2. Now I can take the square root of the 25 (which is 5) and pull it out. Likewise, I pull out the square root of 9 (which is 3). Since it is a square root, I divide the exponents by 2. ................
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