SOLUTION: Rewrite with rational exponents: square root of 17

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square root of 17 This question is from textbook

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Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Since the square root is really a "second root", this means that . Since the square root is so commonly used, we've dropped the 2 (as we know that we're dealing with a square root when no number is present)

So

Now, recall that

In this case, , , and . So...

We can simplify further to get

So the answer is
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