SOLUTION: In what sense do exponentials and radicals behave exactly the same way.Please, help me because I am forty nine years old and struggling in class.

Question 327928: In what sense do exponentials and radicals behave exactly the same way.Please, help me because I am forty nine years old and struggling in class.
Answer by rapaljer(4671) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Radicals are actually fractional exponents. For example,

etc.

So, the operations on radicals are actually based on the laws of expoents.

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