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How do you simplify $sqrt(x^8)/sqrt(x^4)$ ?

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Sajeev Y. · Stefan V.

Apr 10, 2017

The answer should be $x^2$

Explanation:

$x^(8*1/2)/x^(4*1/2)$

$x^4/x^2$

$x^(4-2)$
using $a^b/a^c=a^(b-c)$
$x^2$

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