how do you find the geometric mean of a pair of numbers and put it in the simplest radical form? (e.g. 3 and 9)
How do you find the geometric mean of a pair of numbers and put it in the simplest radical form? (e.g. 3 and 9)
For instance, the geometric mean of two numbers, say 2 and 8,
is just the square root of their product; that is $$\sqrt{2\cdot 8}=4$$.
$$\small{\text{
The geomeric mean of the pair of numbers 3 and 9 is:
$
\sqrt[2]{3*9}= \sqrt[2]{3}* \sqrt[2]{9}= \sqrt[2]{3}* 3
$
}}$$