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Question from Pete, a student: Hi, |
Hi Pete. It looks like you wrote this:
The radical sign with a 3 in the crook means cube root. That means the same as the exponent of 1/3.
Remember that with rules of exponents, you multiply the exponents together to simplify from this form:
Hope this helps,
Stephen La Rocque.
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