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How do you simplify $\sqrt{x^{17}}$ $sqrt(x^17)$ ?

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Konstantinos Michailidis

Apr 25, 2018

I think as follows for $x \geq 0$ $x>=0$

$\sqrt{x^{17}} = \sqrt{{(x^{8})}^{2} \cdot x} = x^{8} \cdot \sqrt{x}$ $sqrt(x^17)=sqrt((x^8)^2*x)=x^8*sqrtx$

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