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Training an Operator on Simplifying Radicals with External Signs

As a quality control technician in a manufacturing plant, you are training a new operator on how to evaluate physical and directional offsets represented by radical expressions. Explain how to simplify the three expressions 36\sqrt{36}, 169\sqrt{169}, and 225-\sqrt{225} to find their final numerical values. In your response, state the simplified value for each of the three expressions and briefly explain how to handle the negative sign in the expression 225-\sqrt{225}.

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