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North Dakota Math

Number and Quantity: The Real Number System

Extend the properties of exponents to rational numbers

HS.N-RN.1

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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.

Use properties of rational and irrational numbers