How do you rewrite with fractional exponents for 4mna2b2?

1 Answer
Mar 6, 2018

2(mn)12ab

Explanation:

Since we say that x=x12, we can write the above as:

(4mn)12(a2b2)12

Since (xy)z=xzyz, we can write:

412m12n12(a2)12(b2)12

Some of these cancel out:

2m12n12ab, and to make this look nicer, we can write:

2(mn)12ab