How would I factor a radical? The problem that I\'m trying toget is Simplify by

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How would I factor a radical? The problem that I'm trying toget is Simplify by factorin: 250. So far I've gotten that you take the radical (250) andfind the largest perfect square. In this case, I've got 15^2. Ijust don't get what to do next. Can someone please help? How would I factor a radical? The problem that I'm trying toget is Simplify by factorin: 250. So far I've gotten that you take the radical (250) andfind the largest perfect square. In this case, I've got 15^2. Ijust don't get what to do next. Can someone please help?

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250 = 25 *10 = 5*5 *10. As you can see 250 is still equal to5*5*10 so we did not change anything from the originalradical. When you get a a pair of numbers inside the radical, forexample 5*5 you can pull out a 5 because the square rootof 5*5 is 5.
that means your answer will end up being 510

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