A Curious Square Root: Index

Algebra II, Precalculus 1 Minute

I’m using the Twelve Days of Christmas (and perhaps a few extra days besides) to do something that I should have done a long time ago: collect past series of posts into a single, easy-to-reference post. The following posts formed my series on expressions containing nested square roots that nevertheless can be simplified.

Part 1: Simplifying \sqrt{5 - \sqrt{6} + \sqrt{22+8\sqrt{6}}}.

Part 2: DIfferent ways of calculating \sin 15^\circ.

 

 

 

 

Published by John Quintanilla

I'm a Professor of Mathematics and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of North Texas. For eight years, I was co-director of Teach North Texas, UNT's program for preparing secondary teachers of mathematics and science.

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