Question

How do you simplify `2a^(1/5)-6a^(1/5)`?

Answer 1

`-4a^(1/5) = -4 root5(a)`

Explanation:

The first thing to take note of here is that we have like terms just as 2x - 6x are like terms.

`2a^(1/5)-6a^(1/5) = -4a^(1/5)`

This cannot be simplified further apart from perhaps writing it as:

`-4a^(1/5) = -4 root5(a)`