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Wei Kit loves shortcuts! When calculating with fractional exponents, he looks for a way to avoid using his calculator. For example, he found out that by using the method below:


Use Wei Kit's method to evaluate the following expressions:

  1. To avoid dealing with large numbers, find the square root of first. After all,   is equivalent to .

  1. Step 1: What is the cube-root of ?
    Step 2: Raise the cube-root of to the th-power.

  1. What is the fourth-root of ?

  1. Reduce  before evaluating.