@JAlbert0ltq@_alee__sha_ You don't actually need to work out what √144 is. It can be written as 4x√144 over 2x√144 Which means the √just cancels out. Really useful technique if it was some oddball number in the square root.
@_alee__sha_ What that means is even if it was a ridiculously hard to √ number (eg √1.379) it doesn't matter it's still just as easy to get the answer, which would still be 2.
@_alee__sha_ It can be rearranged to 4x√144 over 2x√144 as the √144 is common to both top and bottom they cancel each other out, so you don't even need to be able to calculate √144. That leaves 4/2 or 2