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Defining Rational Exponents in Quality Assurance Documentation

A quality assurance technician is documenting a new testing procedure that involves the mathematical expression x4/3x^{4/3}, where xx represents a voltage threshold. To ensure all staff members can interpret this notation correctly, the technician must include the formal definition in the manual. State the general mathematical rule for interpreting a rational exponent in the form am/na^{m/n}. In your response, explicitly identify the specific roles of the numbers 4 and 3 in the expression x4/3x^{4/3} (i.e., which number serves as the index of the radical and which number serves as the power).

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