What does it mean to take a positive rational number to a whole number power?

jim1174 · Jan 31, 2015

How do you do it

Mark44 · Jan 31, 2015

jim1174 said:

How do you do it

I don't know what you're asking. Don't try to put the whole question into the title.

jim1174 · Feb 1, 2015

I need to know how to take positive rational numbers to whole number powers

SteamKing · Feb 1, 2015

jim1174 said:

I need to know how to take positive rational numbers to whole number powers

Do you mean like what is, for example, (1/2)³?

In general, (a/b)ⁿ = aⁿ / bⁿ, where a,b are real numbers, b ≠ 0, and n is a positive integer.

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