Question

rewrite√8 in index form?

Answer 1

\[\sqrt{2^3}\]
\[=2^{\frac{3}{2}}\]

Answer 2

my text gives the answer 8 1/2?????

Answer 3

sqrt(x)=x^1/2

Answer 4

so sqrt(8)=8^1/2

Answer 5

I didn't know what index form was :-P

Answer 6

i do not get that

Answer 7

What do you mean?

Answer 8

index form is an unusual terminology. it just shows what that radical signs are really fractional exponents, so the 5th root of X is X^1/5, or the 3rd root of Y^4 is Y^(4/3) etc.

Answer 9

make sense?

Answer 10

sort of

Answer 11

i get it