Algebra Examples

$x \sqrt{49 y^{3}} - y \sqrt{4 x^{2} y}$

Step 1

Simplify each term.

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Step 1.1

Rewrite $49 y^{3}$ as ${(7 y)}^{2} y$ .

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Step 1.1.1

Rewrite $49$ as $7^{2}$ .

$x \sqrt{7^{2} y^{3}} - y \sqrt{4 x^{2} y}$

Step 1.1.2

Factor out $y^{2}$ .

$x \sqrt{7^{2} (y^{2} y)} - y \sqrt{4 x^{2} y}$

Step 1.1.3

Rewrite $7^{2} y^{2}$ as ${(7 y)}^{2}$ .

$x \sqrt{{(7 y)}^{2} y} - y \sqrt{4 x^{2} y}$

Step 1.2

Pull terms out from under the radical.

$x (7 y \sqrt{y}) - y \sqrt{4 x^{2} y}$

Step 1.3

Rewrite using the commutative property of multiplication.

$7 x y \sqrt{y} - y \sqrt{4 x^{2} y}$

Step 1.4

Rewrite $4 x^{2} y$ as ${(2 x)}^{2} y$ .

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Step 1.4.1

Rewrite $4$ as $2^{2}$ .

$7 x y \sqrt{y} - y \sqrt{2^{2} x^{2} y}$

Step 1.4.2

Rewrite $2^{2} x^{2}$ as ${(2 x)}^{2}$ .

$7 x y \sqrt{y} - y \sqrt{{(2 x)}^{2} y}$

Step 1.5

Pull terms out from under the radical.

$7 x y \sqrt{y} - y (2 x \sqrt{y})$

Step 1.6

Multiply $2$ by $- 1$ .

$7 x y \sqrt{y} - 2 y (x \sqrt{y})$

Step 2

Subtract $2 y (x \sqrt{y})$ from $7 x y \sqrt{y}$ .

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Step 2.1

Move $y$ .

$7 x y \sqrt{y} - 2 x y \sqrt{y}$

Step 2.2

Subtract $2 x y \sqrt{y}$ from $7 x y \sqrt{y}$ .

$5 x y \sqrt{y}$