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Mathematics · True or False?

Taking the square root of a number is the same as raising that number to the power of 1/2

The answer is True.

Explanation

For non-negative numbers, √x = x^(1/2). The same pattern generalizes: x^(1/3) is the cube root, x^(1/n) is the n-th root.

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