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Which is larger:
the tenth root of 10, or the cube root of 2?
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Answer
Cube root of 2.
We have 101/10 vs 21/3.
Raise each to the power of 30 (since 10 x 3 = 30) to give:
101/10 x 30 vs 21/3 x 30, which simplifies to:
103 vs 210, which gives:
1000 vs 1024.
Therefore the cube root of 2 is larger. Alternatively we can use a calculator to see that the tenth root of 10 = 1.2589 and the cube root of 2 = 1.2599.
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