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EndersWorld:

Radicals

EndersWorld:

\[\sqrt[3]{3xy^3}*\sqrt[3]{18x^5y^3}\]

Shadow:

What did you get?

EndersWorld:

I haven’t been able to start yet, not sure WHERE to stop.

Shadow:

Well they have the same radicand of 3 so they can multiply

Shadow:

To a number that's under the same radicand

EndersWorld:

One sec, gotta hook up laptop to tv for dad.

EndersWorld:

So 3*18 and so forth?

Shadow:

yes, like terms

EndersWorld:

And add the exponents right?

Shadow:

yes

EndersWorld:

\[\sqrt[3]{54x^6y^6}\]

Shadow:

Mhm, now you can further simplify

EndersWorld:

\[6x^2y^2\]

Shadow:

You didn't do the 3rd root of 54 correctly

Shadow:

\[\sqrt[3]{54} = \sqrt[3]{3 \times 18} = \sqrt[3]{3 \times 3 \times 6} = \sqrt[3]{3 \times 3 \times \times 3 \times 2} \]

EndersWorld:

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Shadow:

Yeah, 6 is broke down into two and three. The two would stay inside, and the threes would go outside.

EndersWorld:

I’m dumb...

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