Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #7057: Simplifying radicals - Simplifying Radicals
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2011-11-25 17:23:56+00:00
State: open
Labels: chrome, hard, vista

square root of 36 is obviously 6
but that is not the answer. the question ask to simplify square root 36. i saw the video n even the person talking said the answer is 6. so what is the answer??? i have on this question for an hour now. please explain

[simplifying_radicals.html?seed=31&problem=perfect-squares](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/simplifying_radicals.html?seed=31&problem=perfect-squares&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/simplifying_radicals.html?seed=31&problem=perfect-squares&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B6%2C2%5D%22%2C206%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B6%2C3%5D%22%2C141%5D%5D)

[[6,2],[6,3]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2

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