Question

A student found the distance between two points to be 45. Can the link be simplified?

Answer 1

Given to simplify,

$\sqrt[]{45}$

to simplify,

$\begin{gathered} \sqrt[]{45}=\sqrt[]{9\times5} \\ =\sqrt[]{3\times3\times5} \\ =3\sqrt[]{5} \end{gathered}$

The simplify answer is,

$3\sqrt[]{5}$