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Can you please explain this one to me?
It looks very easy but I'm just not catching on...

Can you please explain this one to me? It looks very easy but I'm just not catching-example-1
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That appears to be the square root and the cube root...so what you really have is:

(2^(1/2))*(2^(1/3))

Now the rule for multiplication of similar bases with different exponents is:

a^b*a^c=a^(b+c), so in this case:

2^(1/2)*2^(1/3) is equal to

2^(1/2+1/3) which is equal to

2^(5/6)