SOLUTION: Can someone please help!! What is the meaning of fractional exponents? Do they really make working with expressions containing radicals easier by letting you represent them using

Question 26605: Can someone please help!! What is the meaning of fractional exponents? Do they really make working with expressions containing radicals easier by letting you represent them using exponents?
Answer by longjonsilver(2297) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
fractional exponents are another way of writing roots:

is the same as

and so nth root of say x is

Is this an easier way of understanding roots? Shrugs here...it is just another weapon in your maths arsenal to solve questions. Sometimes keeping roots and sometimes keeping fractional exponents will help.

jon.

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