Hi everyone!! Happy New Year to you all! :)can somebody PLEASE help me?!! how do you simplify 16^1/2?? how do you describe in a paragraph how you simplify the squareroot of 100(i know the answer is 10 nbut how do you desribe how you got the answer?)

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anonymous · Answer

16^1=16
16/2=8/1=8

anonymous · Answer

if you meant 16 to the power of a half, the answer is 4, becasue a power of a half is the same as the sqrt

anonymous · Answer

hi Zara the question is how do you simplify 16 with the squareroot of one half not 1 & 2 but thank you for responding

anonymous · Answer

ohh, sorry :)

anonymous · Answer

thank you 08krishna,o you know how i would describe how to get the answer in a paragraph?

anonymous · Answer

zara no need to be sorry, thank you for responding

anonymous · Answer

haha thanks, no problem :)

anonymous · Answer

$$\Large {x^{n/m}} = \sqrt[m]{{{x^n}}}$$