Don't split the radical up until you subtract the exponents of the x'sNow split it up: Since the power of x is a multiple of 7 we can take it out of the radical on top, divide the exponent 21 by the index of the radical 7 and get x3 which we write in front of the top radical: Since 243 = 35, we replace 243 by that: We have 35 on the bottom, and we need 37 so that it will come out of the radical, so we multiply by Multiply under the radicals: Rewrite 8*9 as 72 and the denominator as just 3 Edwin