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Hi im having problems with this problem you have to simplify this problem and the quotient of radicals. simplify and solve step by step.

 HERES THE PROBLEM.

There is a 6 in front-outside of the square root box and 7 in the square root box, times,
There is a 3 in front-outside the square root box and 5 in the sqaure root box.

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First of all, I would write this problem like this:

6*sqrt(7) * 3*sqrt(5)

What you have here is four factors that need to be multiplied together.  Use the commutative property of multiplication first to move them around and get similar factors together:

6 * 3 * sqrt(7) * sqrt(5)

Then multiply:
18 * sqrt(35)

That's about all you can do with this one.

Hope this helps.

Jeff

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