SOLUTION: How do you figure out the cube root of x times the fifth root of y?

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Question 278977: How do you figure out the cube root of x times the fifth root of y?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056) About Me  (Show Source):
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How do you figure out the cube root of x times the fifth root of y?

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Change the roots to fraction exponents:

 

Get the fraction exponents with their least common denominator:



Change each to a 15th root:



Now since the radicals have the same index, you can multiply
under them:

 

Edwin