A student submitted the following work that is not correct. Can you find the mistake?
Explain the mistake the student made.
Simplify (assuming all variables are positive): √32x³y²z7
Step 1: √8.4.x².xy².26. z
Step 2: 2xyz³ √8xz

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Step-by-step explanation:

so you have the equation: [tex]\sqrt{32x^3y^2z^7}[/tex] which I'm assuming is what you meant to input. and the next step I'm assuming you wrote: [tex]\sqrt{8} * \sqrt{4} * \sqrt{x^2} * \sqrt{y^2} * \sqrt{x} * \sqrt{z^6} * \sqrt{z}[/tex], although I'm not 100% sure, I'm basing this assumption off of step 3. Anyways this will simplify to [tex]2xyz^3\sqrt{8xz}[/tex] which is correct kind of, but since they were asked to FULLY SIMPLIFY, then it's not completely done. This is because 8 has a factor of 4 which is a perfect square. This is because in step 1, the student rewrote 32 as sqrt(8) * sqrt(4) instead of writing it as sqrt(2) * sqrt(16) which is the greatest factor of 32 that is a perfect square. So they could've either done that in step 1, or they could've realized in step 2, that they can further simplify sqrt(8) and then have a step 3 showing that.