Question

In your own words explain the difference between the following two expressions:
(-1)^2/4 and (-1)^1/2

Answer 1

okay so when you have an exponent that is a fraction it means that your join to have to square root, third root, or fourth root, and so on. Have you ever heard of these before because seem people don't know what fourth root or third root means and I usually have explain it to them. All in all the first one look like this which will then simplify to this: while the second one will look like this and it is in its simplest form
the difference between the first and second equation is that the first will simplify to having no imaginary numbers while the second one will