SOLUTION: problem reads: A student starts with a positive number, x,and takes the psoitive square root four times in succession. The final result is equivalent to which of the following?

Question 636077: problem reads: A student starts with a positive number, x,and takes the psoitive square root four times in succession. The final result is equivalent to which of the following?
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Found 2 solutions by solver91311, micstuart:
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Equivalent to which of the following what?

John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it

Answer by micstuart(1) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You are taking a positive number, x, and squaring it 4 times. Let x = 65536.
= 256 you have squared x 1 time. Now square it again
= 16 you have squared x 2 times... do it again
= 4 you have squared x 3 times... once more!
= 2 Now you have squared x 4 times in succession

Note: you could use any positive number in place of x. I just chose 65536 because you could square it nicely 4 times in succession. Hope this helps
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