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Help please I actually don’t understand this one question

Help please I actually don’t understand this one question-example-1
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Answer:


a=(1)/(15)

Explanation:


\frac{\sqrt[5]{x} }{(x^(1)/(5) )^(4) } = x^(a)


\frac{\sqrt[5]{x} }{x^(4)/(5) } =x^a

Fractional exponets according to the exponents properties the denominator can be changed to be a radical like this


\frac{\sqrt[5]{x} }{\sqrt[5]{x^4} }

Now we can turn this into one big radical


\sqrt[5]{(x)/(x^4) }

simplify


\sqrt[5]{x^(1)/(3) }

Now you can turn the radical into an exponent


x^((1)/(3) )/(5)

Simplify


x^{(1)/(15) }

I really hope this helps I tried to find photos to show the rules I used but for some reason they won't save to my computer. Let me know if you have questions and if the answer was right

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