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Simplifying Square Roots

**Remember, perfect squares are numbers that you can take the square root of and your answer has no decimal!  Examples: 4 ,9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100, 121…

Follow the example and steps below in order to complete the table.

   Simplify the following square root:  √50

1)	Rewrite the inside of the square root √50 as the largest perfect square possible times a number.  
√25 • 2
2)	Rewrite it as two square roots being multiplied.  
    √25 • √2
3)	Only take the square root of the perfect square.  
        5 • √2
4)	Write the final answer as a number times the ‘left over’ square root. 
          5√2

Original square root	Step 1 
Rewrite the inside of the square root as a perfect square times a number
    √__ • __	Step 2
Rewrite as two square roots being multiplied

   √__ • √ __	Step 3
Take square root of only the perfect square to get the final answer 
      __√__
	
1.	√20
				
2.	√18
				
3.	√48
				
4.	√75
				
5.	√72