How do you simplify sqrt18/sqrt3183?

2 Answers
Jun 6, 2015

Knowing that sqrt A/sqrt B = sqrt (A/B)AB=AB then

sqrt 18/sqrt 3 = sqrt (18/3) = sqrt 6183=183=6

Jun 6, 2015

You can take a one big square root:
sqrt(18/3)=sqrt(6)183=6
Or:
Multiply and divide by sqrt(3)3:
sqrt(18)/sqrt(3)*sqrt(3)/sqrt(3)=(sqrt(6*3)*sqrt(3))/3=(sqrt(6)sqrt(3)sqrt(3))/3=18333=6333=6333=
=cancel(3)sqrt(6)/cancel(3)=sqrt(6)