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Combining Radical Terms
- 2. It is a term which contains a radical. What is a radical term?
- 3. But what is a radical? A radical is another name for a square root.
- 4. Okay—so a radical term . . . . . . is an term that contains a radical, or square root. Look! There goes one now!
- 7. You may have noticed that the two expressions are really the same, if . . .
- 8. If what? Under what condition would the two expressions be identical?
- 10. That means since you already know how to simplify the first expression . . .
- 11. . . . then you also know how to simplify the radical expression .
- 15. You can only combine radical terms when the radicands are identical. When what are identical? What is a radicand?
- 17. When two (or more) terms have exactly the same radicand,
- 18. we call them like radical terms , and we can combine them .
- 20. . . . the terms cannot be combined.