Square Roots with Variables (Simplifying Math)

This lesson teaches how to find the square root of a term that has variables and numbers.
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[@Henry101crab]

My teacher didn't help me at all, but you helped me learn this in 7 minutes! Thank you!

[@EricBuffington]

+brandon mendoza Glad to help! :)

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I love how my teacher has tried to teach me this for 4 days and I picked it up in this video in 8 mins lol

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+Rory Hylden fantastic! :)

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Same here

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I love how I see this comment on every math video...

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The best explained video on UA-cam for roots

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Thank you because I am so lost with this process. Because you went slow and gave clear explanations and did not skip any steps I have a better idea of this process. Thank you!

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Glad that it helped!

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i've been stuck on this part in khan academy all freaking DAY and you solved my problems in 8 minutes. I love you Eric the internet math person.

[@EricBuffington]

Thanks! So glad it helped! :)

[@chandlerwhitchurch9984]

YES! Thank you!! I watched every video Khan Academy had on this at LEAST twice and could not understand (and when the x shows up in variables it wasn't really explained). I got it after watching this. Thanks again!!

[@EricBuffington]

That's so good to hear! Glad it was helpful for you! I like to explain more of the why behind what I'm doing, sometimes Khan videos, which I do like a lot, just show examples without the full explanation.

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Me too!!

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Same! It wasn't explaining THAT ONE LESSON for me clearly..

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THANK YOU
a 8-minute video just saved my entire math grade right now

[@EricBuffington]

Glad it helped!

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I wish you were my math teacher, you explain this concept in a digestible way. I have trouble in class paying attention in following along so this really helped me, thank you

[@EricBuffington]

Thanks for the kind comment! It made my day! :)

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This helped out so much! My textbooks totally skips over the reasoning behind this so it got confusing. Thanks a bunch!

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[@EricBuffington]

+CrushedToTheDepths My life work is complete. :)

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[@EricBuffington]

Glad I could help!

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This makes soooo much more sense then when my teacher did it. *mind blown

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[@emilyforestier5959]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR INCLUDING VARIABLES AND EXPONENTS!! EVERY TIME I TRY AND LOOK FOR ONE THAT WILL EXPLAIN, THEY ONLY USE PERFECT ROOTS

[@EricBuffington]

I'm so glad this video was helpful for you! Thanks for commenting! :)

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You got this! Keep working at it little by little!

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[@EricBuffington]

I'm glad your teacher did too! Thanks for leaving a comment! :)

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[@EricBuffington]

Glad you liked it!

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I've been struggling with this for a while but the way you explained it made it make sense. Thank you so much!

[@EricBuffington]

Thanks for the comment! It makes my day to hear that these videos are helpful! :)

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well done, my teacher, spends time skipping steps and not going over the basic fundamentals that are required for trigonometry, but this covered 90 minutes of his class in less than 10 minutes.

[@EricBuffington]

Glad it helped. :) Thanks for the comment.

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Eric, thank you brother, you explained it where I can understand it. I aced my test.

[@EricBuffington]

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So much better than Khan Academy as far as explaining how and why. Thank you.

[@EricBuffington]

Thank! I do try to explain why we do each step. I'm glad that was helpful for you! :)

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Keep up the Great Work!

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Glad I can help! Good luck with the homework! :)

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thanks I did this before winter break so I couldn't remember how to do this, now I actually know how to do it better. Great concise video, no confusion and good examples.

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[@EricBuffington]

So glad it helped! Thanks for leaving a comment!

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Do you have more video about square root s??

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This is still resourceful 9 year later. Thank you

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Honestly, I spent 20 min figuring this out in the textbook my teacher gave me, but this video help me pick it up easily.

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[@EricBuffington]

Glad to hear it! Thanks for the comment!

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You explain this so well! Thanks a bunch. You have a new subscriber!

[@EricBuffington]

+Nancy DiMarco Thanks for subscribing!

[@EricBuffington]

+cesarpondarkorbit finding any root other than the square root is very difficult. cubed root (3sqrt) is finding the number times itself 3 times. Like you said 3root27 is 3. Basically with this type of question, unless you have your x^3 or x^4 facts memorized, you'll use a calculator. The button is xsqrt.

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thank you for explaining this clearly when my teacher tried to explain this i couldn't get it but once again thank you

[@EricBuffington]

You're very welcome!

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[@bigstuff52]

Thank you for teaching this in such a way that I can keep track of everything...It wasn't that I couldn't simplify square roots with variables, I couldn't keep track of everything..I didn't have a system to put it all in order...I do now...thank you..

[@EricBuffington]

So glad this system worked for you! :)

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I FINALLY get it. Thank you kind sir, these other videos made no sense.

[@EricBuffington]

So glad it helped! :) Thanks for the comment!

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This guy teaches for 8 min me: oh wow this is easy

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Glad I could help! :)

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Thanks Robin! Glad to have a fellow teacher finding these useful!

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Glad it was helpful! :)

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Thank you for explaining this to me. I have a better understanding of where my numbers are going when I simplify.

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So glad I could help! :)

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[@EricBuffington]

You are very welcome

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Happy to help!

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+Franco Remy Thanks, that's really nice of you to say!

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Thank you for this, the teacher gave us these guided notes that were vague af and didn’t even mentioned variables. They were just on the worksheet and we were just supposed to figure it out I guess

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Thanks for the reply Eric, any idea what level of mathematics that it would fall under?

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Glad it was helpful!

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I'm so happy this helped! :)

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Thank you so much! I watched so many Khan Academy videos and I could not understand this. Now I get it, thank you so much!

[@EricBuffington]

Khan has some amazing resources, but often the videos don't explain why to do certain steps. I'm glad this video helped! :)