1. 0.00262 or 131/50000
2. 0.436 or 109/250
3. 0.00773 or 773/100000
4. 0.0565 or 113/2000
The number of pieces in a whole relates to the size of each piece because say you have a pizza and you want to divide into five pieces for five of your friends it depends on how big the pizza is to if it can feed that many people.
Firstly it's not a radical expression.
You can factorize the numerator x²+12x+36 = (x+6)²
Factorize the denominator 12x+72 = 12(x+6)
=(x+6)² / 12(x+6) , simplify. Answer = (x+6)/12
The sign of the product of that equation would be negative.
