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Question 96415: PLEASE HELP!!! I have an assignment due and I am having problems; can you please explain the below for me?
How would you explain square roots, cube roots, nth roots, and radicals to a student who is having difficulty understanding these concepts? What are some limitations of square root?

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The square root is when there are two equal numbers that can be multiplied together still gives that number. An example of this is the number 25; when multiplied 5*5 or �5*-5, the square root is 5.
Cube roots are made of three equal numbers when multiplied together; this example would be 2*2*2 = 8. This means that 2 is the cube root of 8.

The nth roots are multiplied together; this example is the 10th roots of 1024 are 2 and -2

The radical refers to a square root and can be written like x
The difficulty of a square root is you cannot take the square root of a negative number.