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-In the notation $\sqrt [ n ] { a } , n$ is called the ـــــــــــand $\mathrm { a }$ is called theــــــــــــــــــــــــ
A) index; radicand
B) conjugate; radicand
C) radicand; index
D) index; conjugate

Question

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-In the notation $\sqrt [ n ] { a } , n$ is called the ـــــــــــand $\mathrm { a }$ is called theــــــــــــــــــــــــ
A) index; radicand 
B) conjugate; radicand 
C) radicand; index 
D) index; conjugate

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

In the notation $\sqrt[n]{a}$, $n$ is called the index, which indicates the degree of the root, and $a$ is called the radicand, which is the number under the root symbol.

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