Question

What operation does the power 1/2 represent? Can you think of operations that other fractional powers represent, such as 1/3, 1/4 and 2/3?

Answer 1

it represents division

Answer 2

x^1/2   represent the square root of x

x^1/3    is the cube root of x

x^2/3  represents the square of the cube root of x

Note:- the power is the numerator of the exponent and the denominator of the exponents is the root