How do you simplify $100000^(1/6)$ ?

Question

4296 views around the world

You can reuse this answer
Creative Commons License

Answer 1 · 2017-10-06T00:26:28

The approximate answer is 6.81

Written with a radical it is $root(6)100000$

The answer was obtained by using a calculator, but the converting from exponent to radical is a skill you can actually learn.

Any time you have an exponent written as a fraction, you can write that as a radical (looks like a square root).

The general rule is $a^(b/c)=root(c)(a^b)$

In your problem a = 100000, b = 1, and c = 6

How do you simplify 100000^(1/6)100000^(1/6)?