Ivan Shishkin, Rye (1878)

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Egalité avec des racines

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Solution

Solution by CestCool · EN

The key idea is to recognize the expression under the radical as a perfect square trinomial.
Observe that:

5+26=(2)2+223+(3)2\sqrt{5 + 2\sqrt{6}} = \sqrt{(\sqrt{2})^{2} + 2\cdot\sqrt{2}\cdot\sqrt{3} + (\sqrt{3})^{2}}

This matches the identity a2+2ab+b2=(a+b)2a^2 + 2ab + b^2 = (a+b)^2 with a=2a = \sqrt{2} and b=3b = \sqrt{3}, so:

5+26=(2+3)2=2+3=2+3\sqrt{5 + 2\sqrt{6}} = \sqrt{\left(\sqrt{2} + \sqrt{3}\right)^2} = \left|\sqrt{2} + \sqrt{3}\right| = \sqrt{2} + \sqrt{3}

The last step uses X2=X\sqrt{X^2} = |X| for all real XX, and then the absolute value resolves to 2+3\sqrt{2} + \sqrt{3} itself since 2+3>0\sqrt{2} + \sqrt{3} > 0.

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