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N-RN.1 (Mathematics)


Standard Identifier: N-RN.1
Content Area: Mathematics
Grade Range: 7–12
Domain: The Real Number System
Discipline: Algebra I
Conceptual Category: Number and Quantity

Cluster:
Extend the properties of exponents to rational exponents.

Standard:
Explain how the definition of the meaning of rational exponents follows from extending the properties of integer exponents to those values, allowing for a notation for radicals in terms of rational exponents. For example, we define 5^1/3 to be the cube root of 5 because we want (5^1/3)^3 = 5(^1/3)^3 to hold, so (5^1/3)^3 must equal 5.

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