Simplifying Radicals Notes - Rice University

Multiplying Radicals. Objective: to multiply two or more radicals and simplify answers. I. Radical multiplication. A. Rules and steps for monomials. 1. Index numbers must be the same. 2. Multiply radicands to radicands (they do not have to be the same). 3. Multiply outside numbers to outside numbers. 4. SIMPLIFY, SIMPLIFY, SIMPLIFY! B. ................
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