SOLUTION: If the product 2352k is a perfect fifth power, what is the smallest possible value of k, where k is a positive integer?

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Question 1009055: If the product 2352k is a perfect fifth power, what is the smallest possible value of k, where k is a positive integer?
Answer by fractalier(6550) About Me  (Show Source):
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Since 2352 factors out to be
2^4 * 3 * 7^2, you would need k to be number that makes all of those factors into fifth powers...thus
k = 2 * 3^4 * 7^3 = 55566