How do you simplify $(-8)^(5/3)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-09-28T13:47:17

This expression can be simplified to $-32$ .

For this kind of problem, use the rule $a^(n/m) = root(m)(a)^n$

So, we can rewrite $(-8)^(5/3)$ as $(root(3)(-8))^5$ , which can be simplified as follows:

$=-2^5$

$= -32$

Hopefully this helps!

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