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Lostsunrise [7]
2 years ago
14

How do you simplify

20%5Csqrt%7B6%7D%20%20%7D" id="TexFormula1" title="\frac{\sqrt{2} +\sqrt{6} }{\sqrt{8} + \sqrt{6} }" alt="\frac{\sqrt{2} +\sqrt{6} }{\sqrt{8} + \sqrt{6} }" align="absmiddle" class="latex-formula">?
Mathematics
1 answer:
blondinia [14]2 years ago
7 0

The trick is to exploit the difference of squares formula,

a^2-b^2=(a-b)(a+b)

Set a = √8 and b = √6, so that a + b is the expression in the denominator. Multiply by its conjugate a - b:

(\sqrt8+\sqrt6)(\sqrt8-\sqrt6)=(\sqrt8)^2-(\sqrt6)^2=8-6=2

Whatever you do to the denominator, you have to do to the numerator too. So

\dfrac{\sqrt2+\sqrt6}{\sqrt8+\sqrt6}=\dfrac{(\sqrt2+\sqrt6)(\sqrt8-\sqrt6)}{(\sqrt8+\sqrt6)(\sqrt8-\sqrt6)}=\dfrac{(\sqrt2+\sqrt6)(\sqrt8-\sqrt6)}2

Expand the numerator:

(\sqrt2+\sqrt6)(\sqrt8-\sqrt6)=\sqrt{2\cdot8}+\sqrt{6\cdot8}-\sqrt{2\cdot6}-(\sqrt6)^2

(\sqrt2+\sqrt6)(\sqrt8-\sqrt6)=\sqrt{16}+\sqrt{48}-\sqrt{12}-6

(\sqrt2+\sqrt6)(\sqrt8-\sqrt6)=4+\sqrt{48}-\sqrt{12}-6

(\sqrt2+\sqrt6)(\sqrt8-\sqrt6)=-2+\sqrt{12}(\sqrt4-1)

(\sqrt2+\sqrt6)(\sqrt8-\sqrt6)=-2+\sqrt{12}(2-1)

(\sqrt2+\sqrt6)(\sqrt8-\sqrt6}=-2-\sqrt{12}

So we have

\dfrac{\sqrt2+\sqrt6}{\sqrt8+\sqrt6}=-\dfrac{2+\sqrt{12}}2

But √12 = √(3•4) = 2√3, so

\dfrac{\sqrt2+\sqrt6}{\sqrt8+\sqrt6}=-\dfrac{2+2\sqrt3}2=\boxed{-1-\sqrt3}

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