SOLUTION: how an expression with a rational exponent can be rewritten as a radical expression?

Question 455917: how an expression with a rational exponent can be rewritten as a radical expression?
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Answer by MathLover1(20849) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

The laws for rational exponents work exactly the same as the laws for integer exponents. Here is a review of the laws of exponents

Exponent Laws:

Product Law:

Power to a Power:

Product to a Power:

Quotient Law:
Quotient to a Power :
Let's look at this problem:

To convert a rational exponent to a radical the denominator becomes the index and the numerator of the exponent stays with the number or variable and is in the radicand

So

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