What is the solution to the equation? Please explain the steps to this problem
#16=(x-2)^(2/3#
1 Answer
Jun 26, 2018
Explanation:
First, let's get rid of that nasty exponent. An exponent rule we can use is this:
Let's use it to simplify the right side of our equation:
Next, we need to remove the radical. Let's cube, or apply a power of 3, to each side. Here's how it will work:
We will apply this to our equation:
Then, we will square each side. It works in the opposite way of the last step:
From here, we just add 2 to each side to get our answer:
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