{"issue":{"title":"Simplifying radicals - Simplifying Radicals: Video leaves me confused","user":{"login":"KhanBugz","id":924247,"url":"https://api.github.com/users/KhanBugz","gravatar_id":"96ea3904626fe17bec2152ee31cee0cd","avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/96ea3904626fe17bec2152ee31cee0cd?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png"},"created_at":"2011-12-13T18:49:48Z","milestone":null,"labels":[{"name":"chrome","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Khan/khan-exercises/labels/chrome","color":"e102d8"},{"name":"hard","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Khan/khan-exercises/labels/hard","color":"02d7e1"},{"name":"vista","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Khan/khan-exercises/labels/vista","color":"ededed"}],"state":"closed","updated_at":"2011-12-27T04:55:57Z","id":2541389,"closed_at":"2011-12-27T04:55:57Z","html_url":"https://github.com/Khan/khan-exercises/issues/8551","pull_request":{"patch_url":null,"html_url":null,"diff_url":null},"body":"When answering the square root problem (such as 99) I'm told to leave the square root part (such as 3^2) as simply 3 and the answer to the square root the number I multiply it by (such as 11). Well is not 3^2 a square root? Why is the answer (3 and SR 11) and not (11 and SR 3)?\n\n[simplifying_radicals.html?seed=191&problem=not-yet-simple](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/simplifying_radicals.html?seed=191&problem=not-yet-simple&debug)\n\n[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/simplifying_radicals.html?seed=191&problem=not-yet-simple&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22correct-activity%22%2C%22%5B1%2C99%5D%22%2C40%5D%2C%5B%22correct-activity%22%2C%22%5B1%2C99%5D%22%2C1%5D%2C%5B%22correct-activity%22%2C%22%5B1%2C99%5D%22%2C0%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C1%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C2%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C2%5D%5D)\n\n    [[1,99],[1,99],[1,99]]\n\nMozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2\n\nMathJax is loaded, ready, queue length: 0\n\n","number":8551,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Khan/khan-exercises/issues/8551","comments":1,"assignee":null},"action":"closed"}