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Documenting the Derivation of Rational Exponents

You are a technical documentation specialist for a company that develops mathematical software. A user has asked why the software treats 8 raised to the 1/3 power as identical to the cube root of 8. Based on the standard derivation using the Power Property for Exponents, describe the step-by-step process of solving for 'p' in the equation (8^p)^3 = 8^1. Then, explain how the resulting value of 'p' proves that 8^(1/3) is equivalent to the cube root of 8.

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