A question that stumped me this week was on the assignment of radicals (1.5), question #13 on page 38. Here the question asked me to find the fifth root of -7/8 and add it to the fourth root of 7/8 with a coefficient of 2. While the answer in the Math 10 workbook stated that it was 0.96 (rounding it to nearest hundrenth), I did not understand as to how to arrive at that answer. The confusing part of it all really was that it was dealing with fractions and roots and I was incapable of solving it, despite asking for help from my friend – I really did not understand how to solve it so I left it behind, promising to come back to it.

This week I was really unsure about how to convert mixed radicals into whole and reversing the process back, that is until a friend at lunch helped describe the steps to take in order to do them. He explained to me how to go upon doing it, in which we tried with a series of different questions; the results were, to say the least, successful.