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a + b
and we want to multiply it by:
a - b
so that the result will be simpler:
a^2 - b^2
The question is, when will this be simpler? It will if both a and b are
either radicals or mere numbers. So if you have expressions like:
2 + 4sqrt(3) or 5sqrt(3) - 3sqrt(5)
you can simplify them by multiplying them by their conjugates:
2 - 4sqrt(3) or 5sqrt(3) + 3sqrt(5)
respectively, so that there will be no radicals left.
If you have more than two terms in an expression, you have to decide
how to break it up into "a" and "b"; I'm not sure that this is
technically a conjugate, but it is the same idea extended. In your
example:
3 + sqrt(3) - sqrt(6)
there would be no benefit in breaking it up as:
[ 3 ] + [ sqrt(3) - sqrt(6) ]
since squaring [ sqrt(3) - sqrt(6) ] doesn't simplify it; but we can
take a step in the right direction by writing it as either:
[ 3 + sqrt(3) ] - [ sqrt(6) ]
or as:
[ 3 - sqrt(6) ] + [ sqrt(3) ]
In each case, the left part ("a") will not simplify when you square it,
but the right side ("b") will. You can then gather terms and use a
second conjugate to finish the job. Try both ways and see what happens.
Now, if your denominator is sqrt(a+b), it just doesn't have the form
of a sum, so there is no way to form a conjugate. You could try
multiplying by sqrt(a-b), of course, but all you will get is
sqrt(a^2 - b^2), which doesn't help at all. So the best you can do to
simplify:
1
---------
sqrt(a+b)
is to multiply numerator and denominator by sqrt(a+b) itself:
1 sqrt(a+b)
--------- = ---------
sqrt(a+b) (a+b)