Mathematics question solving

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Can anyone solve it? My answer is -2 which is wrong.

hi

here is my solution, please include the right answer so i know if my solution can help

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But if we multiply 2x2x2x2 the answer is 16 in this way we can cancel exponent 4?
The answer on that website is the following
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That’s another way of solving, but i found the same answer as your website,
2 * ⁴square root -1 is the same as 2 * ²square root -1

Be careful with the notation of the answer, 4 is the index of the root, not the exponent of 2


Why can’t it be solved like this?

hm your solution seems to make sense, i don’t know why it can’t be correct

but here is a good explanation video:

by writing the answer as 2 * ⁴square root -1 we can get around this issue

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