How do you simplify $2a^(1/5)-6a^(1/5)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-08-01T16:39:04

$-4a^(1/5) = -4 root5(a)$

The first thing to take note of here is that we have like terms just as 2x - 6x are like terms.

$2a^(1/5)-6a^(1/5) = -4a^(1/5)$

This cannot be simplified further apart from perhaps writing it as:

$-4a^(1/5) = -4 root5(a)$

How do you simplify 2a^(1/5)-6a^(1/5)2a^(1/5)-6a^(1/5)?