Simplifying Radicals
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What are radicals?
A radical is the indicated root of a quantity.
For example
The radical sign is the symbol 
Some radicals have exact values.
For example
Some radicals do not have exact values
For example
Sometimes, we may want to simplify the radicals.
For example
The following video shows more examples of simplifying radicals.
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