Use this rule:-----------Use this rule:----------- on both terms above being very careful to put the results of the second term in parentheses because it has a minus sign in front of it, which will change the signs: Now remove the prentheses: Use this rule:----------- on the last term: -----------------------------------------------------
Write that asThe index is 3 (cube root), we make as many groups of three like factors as we can and leave the others ungrouped, like this: We were only able to make one group in this problem but in other problems you can make more groups. The TRIPLE comes out in front as a SINGLE and the other factors stay underneath the radical: Then you write the {{(x*x}}} under the radical as ------------------------------ Edwin