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 July 21st, 2017, 10:21 AM #1 Newbie   Joined: Jul 2017 From: Pennsylvania Posts: 1 Thanks: 0 Exponent simplification help needed Below is a problem I did on khan academy, the first thing I did to simplify the problem was square the top and bottom, but in the solution they waited until the very end to take the square root which changed the answer. Was squaring the top and bottom first not the proper way to do it? I'm confused ughhh.jpg
 July 21st, 2017, 11:26 AM #2 Senior Member   Joined: May 2016 From: USA Posts: 750 Thanks: 302 You do realize that the jpg is unreadable. What is the problem, and what did YOU do
 July 21st, 2017, 11:58 AM #3 Global Moderator   Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 17,725 Thanks: 1359 $\dfrac{\sqrt{8c^{20}}}{\sqrt{32c^4}} = \dfrac{2\sqrt2c^{10}}{4\sqrt2c^2} = \dfrac{c^8}{2}$ $\dfrac{\sqrt{8c^{20}}}{\sqrt{32c^4}} = \sqrt{\dfrac{8c^{20}}{32c^4}} = \sqrt{\dfrac{c^{16}}{4}} = \dfrac{\sqrt{c^{16}}}{\sqrt4} = \dfrac{c^8}{2}$
 July 25th, 2017, 05:05 AM #4 Math Team   Joined: Jan 2015 From: Alabama Posts: 2,576 Thanks: 667 There is no such thing as "the proper way" to do a math problem!

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