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Standardizing Technical Data Entry for Radical Expressions

You are a lead technician training a new hire to migrate mathematical formulas into a company database. The database requires that radical expressions containing variables and powers—such as the square root of y cubed, the cube root of x squared, or the fourth root of z cubed—be entered using rational exponents (fractions) rather than radical symbols. Write a brief explanation for the new hire that states the general rule for this conversion. In your explanation, be sure to explicitly identify which part of the radical (the index and the power) becomes the numerator and which part becomes the denominator of the fractional exponent.

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