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New Jersey Math

Number and Quantity: The Real Number System

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Explain how the definition of the meaning of rational exponents follows from extending the properties of integer exponents to those values, allowing for a notation for radicals in terms of rational exponents. For example, we define 5^(1/3) to be the cube root of 5 because we want (5^(1/3))^3 = 5^(1/3)^3 to hold, so (5^(1/3))^3 must equal 5.