Question

malia24
Sophie claims that the nth root of m
can be written as m 1/n.
To prove the claim, what must Sophie show is the value of(m 1/n)^n?

n

1

0

m

Answer 1

"m 1/n" is meaningless; if you want to indicate exponentiation, you must use the "^" symbol, as follows:

m^(1/n)

If you now wish to raise this to the power n, do this:

[m^(1/n)]^n Here we can mult. the 2 exponents together, obtaining m^1, or just plain m.