SOLUTION: please help me find out what the 3 (small 3 like an exponent but on the other side) is doing if it is on the outside of a square rt of 64

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Question 521428: please help me find out what the 3 (small 3 like an exponent but on the other side) is doing if it is on the outside of a square rt of 64
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please help me find out what the 3 (small 3 like an exponent but on the other side) is doing if it is on the outside of a square rt of 64
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That means it's not the square root, but the "cube root" or the third root
3sqrt%2864%29 = 4, see that it can be factored to 3sqrt%284%2A4%2A4%29 illustrating that the cube root of 64 = 4