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The key idea is to recognize the expression under the radical as a perfect square trinomial.
Observe that:
This matches the identity with and , so:
The last step uses for all real , and then the absolute value resolves to itself since .

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The key idea is to recognize the expression under the radical as a perfect square trinomial.
Observe that:
This matches the identity with and , so:
The last step uses for all real , and then the absolute value resolves to itself since .
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