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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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