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Adding & subtracting radicals
 Objective: To add and subtract expressions containing radicals

Recall that like terms such as 5a and 6a can be conbined using the distributive property. You can also combine expressions with radicals as long as the radicands are the same.

You may need to simplify radicals before combining terms.

Examples:
a) Simplify +
(5+6)
answer:   11