The square root of 27b^11

Can someone explain to me how to solve this?

User Icon for Jai Jai answered
13 years ago

first, we factor the radicand (the term inside the radical sign or the squreroot):

sqrt(27*b^11)
sqrt[ (3*3*3) (b*b^10) ]
then we separate the perfect squares:
sqrt[ 3*(3^2) b*((b^5)^2) ]
and we take the squarerrot of the perfect squres. the squareroot of 3^2 is 3, while (b^5)^2 is b^5, then we can take them out of the sqrt, leaving only the 3 and b inside:
3b^5 * sqrt(3b)

hope this helps~ :)