You can think about radicals (also called “roots”) as the opposite of exponents. We already know that the expression x^2 with the exponent of 2 means “multiply x by itself two times”. The opposite operation would be “what do we have to multiply by itself two times in order to get x^2?”
Read MoreWhen we multiply two radicals with the same type of root (both square roots, both cube roots, and so on), we simply multiply the radicands (the expressions under the radical signs) and put the product under a radical sign.
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