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GED Math 1.3 Rational Numbers. Which answer best fills in the blank?
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Thank you We sneak in then here's your smoke du
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jour brought to you by fractional exponents Maybe finding a
- 00:09
hobby would make them feel whole again All right so
- 00:13
sixty four to the two thirds is equivalent to the
- 00:17
something root of sixty four square All right so you've
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got a fifty fifty shot here The only choices in
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the drop down our square and cube You know we
- 00:30
could flip a coin but well we wore our skinny
- 00:33
jeans today and bad things happen All right This question
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wants to know is sixty four to the two thirds
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power equivalent to the square root of sixty four squared
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or the cube root of sixty four squared We hear
- 00:46
of you always thinking times right All right So let's
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consider the first option What's the square root of sixty
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four squared isn't just sixty four Yeah go in sixty
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four can't be the same Is sixty four to the
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two thirds power so it looks like square can be
- 01:02
the right answer That leaves just one option cube but
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because we don't like to settle for the process of
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elimination Well let's just see why that is well when
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dealing with fractional exponents the numerator is the power of
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the power and the denominator is the route I don't
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have a roof All right Which is why the square
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root of sixty four squared comes out to just sixty
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for because it's the same as sixty four to the
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to over to power which is just one or sixty
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four to the first and anything to the first power
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is just itself It's like me find one So when
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we see sixty four to the two thirds power it's
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the same as saying the cube root of sixty four
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square that free goes under work And yeah our answer
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is definitely cute Unless the question is why can we 00:01:50.336 --> [endTime] no longer feel our legs how it hurts
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