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Simplest Radical Form

1. No factor of the radicand is a perfect square (except 1)

2. The radicand contains no fractions

3. No radical can be in the denominator of a fraction

Simplify each radical.

2. 96

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Quadratic Openers

TAKE A GUESS!!! Record your best guess.

1. What is the record height someone fell from without a parachute and survived?

2. What is the highest recorded parachute jump?

3. How long would it take for a tennis ball, dropped from a height of 9 feet, to hit the ground?

4. How could you figure out the depth of a well without directly measuring it?

5. What is the record height from which a dropped baseball was caught?

6. How long would it take for a window squeegee to fall from the top of Sears Tower (1454 feet)?

7. How long did people on the ground, after hearing the crash, have to get out of the way of the

falling debris after a B-25 slammed into the Empire State Building (975 feet) on the morning of July

28, 1945? (Assume sound travels 1100 fps.)

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