Fill in the blank with one of the words or phrases listed below.

-The ــــــــــــof a number a is written as $\sqrt [ 3 ] { a }$.
A) radicand
B) principal square root
C) index
D) cube root

Question

Fill in the blank with one of the words or phrases listed below.

-The ــــــــــــof a number a is written as $\sqrt [ 3 ] { a }$.
A) radicand 
B) principal square root 
C) index 
D) cube root

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The notation $\sqrt [ 3 ] { a }$ represents the cube root of a number $a$, which is the number that, when multiplied by itself three times, gives the original number $a$.

Fill in the Blank with One of the Words or Phrases