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Worksheet 7.1: Radicals and Rational Exponents

This document provides a worksheet with problems involving radicals and rational exponents. The problems include rewriting radicals as rational exponents and vice versa, simplifying expressions with radicals and rational exponents, and using laws of exponents to combine like terms. The worksheet tests skills in manipulating different representations of roots and powers.

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Worksheet 7.1: Radicals and Rational Exponents

This document provides a worksheet with problems involving radicals and rational exponents. The problems include rewriting radicals as rational exponents and vice versa, simplifying expressions with radicals and rational exponents, and using laws of exponents to combine like terms. The worksheet tests skills in manipulating different representations of roots and powers.

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SEW Math 090

Worksheet 7.1: Radicals and Summer 2016


Rational Exponents
1. Each of the following is written in radical notation. Rewrite each with a rational exponent.
√ √
4
(a) 10 (d) a2

√
3
√
5
(b) x (e) 7

√ p
3
(c) x3 (f) y6

2. Each of the following is written with a rational exponent. Rewrite each in radical notation.

(a) 51/2 (d) x4/3

(b) 1001/2 (e) a2/3

(c) y 1/5 (f) x3/6

3. Simplify each of the following. You can convert from radical notation to fraction exponents,
or vice verse, if that’s helpful. Remember to take the root, before taking the power!
Which of these roots is not a real number?
√ √
3
(a) 64 (d) −64

√
3
√
5
(b) 64 (e) 32

√ √
3
(c) −64 (f) −1
√
(g) 4
−1 (l) −27−4/3

(h) 163/4  1/2


49
(m) 100

(i) 16−3/4

 −1/2
49
(n) 100

(j) −163/4

 −3/2
100
(k) (−16)3/4 (o) 9

4. Use the laws of exponents to simplify each of the following. Give your answer using only
positive exponents.

(a) x1/4 x−5/4 p5/3


(d) p2/3

(b) 22/3 2−5/3 (e) (a1/3 a1/4 )12

m−1/4 −4
(c) (x1/2 )8

(f) n−1/2

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