Question

What is the following product?

Answer 1

ANSWER

$2 \sqrt{42} +7 \sqrt{2}- 6- \sqrt{21}$

EXPLANATION

The given product is:

$( \sqrt{14} - \sqrt{3} )( \sqrt{12} + \sqrt{7} )$

We expand using the distributive property to obtain:

$\sqrt{14}( \sqrt{12} + \sqrt{7}) -\sqrt{3}( \sqrt{12} + \sqrt{7} )$

Extract the perfect squares to get:

$\sqrt{14}(2 \sqrt{3} + \sqrt{7}) -\sqrt{3}( 2\sqrt{3} + \sqrt{7} )$

Expand further to get;

$2 \sqrt{42} +7 \sqrt{2}- 2(3) - \sqrt{21}$

This simplifies to,

$2 \sqrt{42} +7 \sqrt{2}- 6- \sqrt{21}$