simplify using radical form: 25 1/2

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anonymous · Answer

if: $$25^{1/2}$$ 
Then:
$$=\pm5$$

anonymous · Answer

like heck

anonymous · Answer

common cause of confusion. the solution to 
$$x^2=25$$ is 
$$x=\pm5$$ but there is only one square root of 25 and it is 5 and no other

anonymous · Answer

$$25^{\frac{1}{2}}=\sqrt{25}=5$$

asadkarim7 · Answer

(25)^1\2
(5^2)^1\2
simplify powers
2 * !/2= 1
the remaining is +- 5

anonymous · Answer

@ satellite73, what you are saying is that the $$\sqrt{25} \neq -5$$
and that is false

anonymous · Answer

lordamercy. once more with feeling.
$$\sqrt{x}$$ means the POSITIVE number whose square is x. c'est tu

anonymous · Answer

The PRIME square root of 25 = 5

anonymous · Answer

in math we only have one answer to the square root of 25.  there are two numbers whose square is 25 i agree. they are 5 or -5. so if you are asked to solve 
$$x^2=25$$ you must reply x = 5 or x = -5.  that is 
IF $$x^2=25$$ 
THEN x = 5 or x = -5

anonymous · Answer

however.... i repeat.  the square root of 25 which is what 
$$25^{\frac{1}{2}}$$  means, that is 
$$25^{\frac{1}{2}}=\sqrt{25}$$ denotes not SOME number whose square is 25,  but the POSITIVE  number whose square is 25 and that number is 5 and no other. the square root function is a perfectly well defined function. it does not give two values.  its domain is all numbers greater than or equal to zero and its range is the same. you can bank on it

anonymous · Answer

hehe... well... just to be that guy.. it says simplify in radical form so the answer should just be $$\sqrt{25}$$ ;)