It is basically a convention for a standardized form.
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No, you can also use conjugates with more than one radical term. For example, if the denominator is root(2) + root(3), you can use the conjugate root(2) - root(3) to rationalize the denominator.
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The idea is to get rid of the square root in the denominator. For this purpose, you must multiply numerator and denominator by the square root of 6 in this case.
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If you are referring to 1/sqrt7 then you multiply the numerator and denominator by sqrt7 over sqrt7. 1 = (1)sqrt7 = sqrt7 sqrt7 (sqrt7)sqrt(7) 7