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Roots and radicals in practice

Solving exercises about fundamental properties of root functions

The following exercises are solved in this step.

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Exercise 1.

Find all the values of (a in mathbb R) for which the following expression makes sense and then simplify it: [left(sqrt[8]{a^4}right)^2]

Exercise 2.

Find all the values of (a in mathbb R) for which the following expression makes sense and then simplify it: [left(sqrt[3]{a}right)^{-1}sqrt[6]{a^9}]

Ex 3. [Solved only in the PDF file]

Sketch the graph of the function (f:xmapstosqrt[3]x).

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