Let's break everything down into primes:
Since the index is 4, we need to get all the groups of 4
like factors that we can. So we'll group
and in parentheses:
and replace by
and replace by
But we need another factor in the bottom
so that we will have only groups of 4 like factors
in the denominator. So we multiply top and bottom
by another
Now we can also group the 4 's
Now we replace by
Now when we take the 4th root of a 4th power
we take away the 4th root radical and the 4
exponent. That is we take them out of the
radical.
Notice we take the entire denominator out of the
radical, so there is no denominator left under the
radical. The only thing left under the radical
are those factors left over after we grouped into
4's.
Edwin