Square root - High School

What’s equivalent to ?

Answer:

Explanation:

In order to solve this problem, we first factor out the 48 as follows:

Now we take the square root of 4 which is 2. We realize that we can not take a square root for 12 so it is left under the square root sign. Therefore our answer is:

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