document.write( "Question 43832This question is from textbook intermediate algebra
\n" ); document.write( ": Please help me. The instructions are: simplify each expression. Assume that all variables represent positive numbers. Write with only positive exponents.
\n" ); document.write( "(a) to the 1/3 power, (a) to the 4/3 power, (a) to the 1/2 power.
\n" ); document.write( "First I wrote them all in Radical Form and tried to find the cube root of each of them, but I don't understand what to do.
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First, fractional exponents are a short-hand method of writing radicals raised to some power:
\n" ); document.write( "For example in a^1/3:
\n" ); document.write( "a = the base
\n" ); document.write( "The numerator = the power that a is raised to
\n" ); document.write( "The denominator = the root of the base
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\n" ); document.write( "So, a is the base, 1 is the power, and 3 is the third root of a:
\n" ); document.write( "(cube root of a)^1
\n" ); document.write( "(cube root of a)^4
\n" ); document.write( "(square root of a)^1
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