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Simplifying cube roots and higher roots worksheets Grade 10

Take the largest perfect cube or fourth power out of the root.

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How to do it

Take the largest perfect cube out of a cube root and the largest perfect fourth power out of a fourth root. Take x out in whole powers.

243=8⋅33=83⋅33=233\sqrt[3]{24} = \sqrt[3]{8 \cdot 3} = \sqrt[3]{8} \cdot \sqrt[3]{3} = 2\sqrt[3]{3}8 = 2³ is the largest perfect cube factor

Example problems

  1. 4x7=\sqrt{4x^{7}} =
  2. 803=\sqrt[3]{80} =
  3. 50x7=\sqrt{50x^{7}} =
  4. x53=\sqrt[3]{x^{5}} =

Exponents, radicals and complex numbers

  1. Zero and negative exponents
  2. Rational exponents
  3. Converting between radicals and rational exponents
  4. Exponent rules with rational exponents
  5. Simplifying cube roots and higher roots
  6. Rationalizing the denominator
  7. Solving radical equations
  8. Imaginary numbers and powers of i
  9. Adding, subtracting and multiplying complex numbers
  10. Dividing complex numbers