Unit
Radical Expressions and Equations
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MA, Stanford University
Teaching in the San Francisco Bay Area
Alissa is currently a teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area and Brightstorm users love her clear, concise explanations of tough concepts
The distributive property of multiplication is true for integers or radicals, as we'll see here. You have a choice of simplifying the roots before you distribute, or simplifying the product later- you'll get the same answer either way. When multiplying with radicals and coefficients, you multiply the coefficients (or outside numbers) separately from the radicands (or "inside the root" numbers).
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