SOLUTION: Hello I wanted to know if I can get help with 2 expressions. Look at the expressions below. Write a narrative description of what you would do to simplify each one. (16)1/2 th

Question 215551: Hello I wanted to know if I can get help with 2 expressions.
Look at the expressions below. Write a narrative description of what you would do to simplify each one.
(16)1/2 the 1/2 is small and out the top right parenthesis.
100 this has a check mark in front that goes across the top of the hundred. I'm not sure what the symbol is called.
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Look at the expressions below. Write a narrative description of what you would do to simplify each one.
(16)^(1/2) the 1/2 is small and out the top right parenthesis.
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The "1/2" is an exponent; it is an instruction to you to "take the
square-root" of 16, which is called the base.
So (16)^(1/2) is another way of expressing the number 4.
Four is the square-root of 16 because 4*4 = 16.
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100 this has a check mark in front that goes across the top of the hundred. I'm not sure what the symbol is called.
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That check mark is also a symbol for root. Where there is no little
index number in front of it, it means "take the square-root". If there
was an index of 3 in front it would mean "take the cube-root".
So your problem says "take the square-root of 100, which is 10.
That is because 10*10= 100
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Cheers,
Stan H.

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