Question

Please Help! Square Roots Question :) Medal + Fan

Answer 1

Can you help?

Answer 2

I have just looked this up.
To multiply the radicals they need the same "indexes", above we have
(index 5) and (index 2)

Answer 3

I don't know but that's directly from the question :/

Answer 4

Yes, we need to change the form before calculating the answer

Answer 5

We can exploit the property that radicals "undo" exponents:
\[\sqrt[2]{5^2} = 5\]of course, square root is the "inverse" of squaring, so squaring first then taking root gives the same number back

Answer 6

It also works for higher exponents and higher indexes
\[\sqrt[3]{5^3} = 5\]If you have different orders of exponent and index, you'll get an exponent or a type of radical as a result

Answer 7

Hmmm.... so what do we do?