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Okay sy mash bumpers uh here's Another one for you

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what's the cube root of forty Okay well it's another

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classic situation The question cackles and evil glee throwing us

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a doozy like this Thank you Root of forty and

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expects us to spend all day finding a number that

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equals forty Wynant's multiplied by itself three times Yeah well

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the answer choice is always out Tio foil the questions

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Plans whisper another secret Hey we all contain a cube

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root So there's no hole number That equals forty when

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it's cubed look for perfect cube factors of forty instead

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Yeah That's How all these questions talking like a moron

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All right well don't mind if we do We follow

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the road here The factor pairs of forty are ten

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and four five and eight two and twenty And of

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the factors listed well eight is the only perfect cube

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right to tend to tend to so used a factor

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Pair of eight and five to rewrite Forty When we

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get to cuba to forty is the cube root of

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eight times five which is equivalent to the cube root

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of eight multiplied by the cube root of five And

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well we know the cube root of eight There is

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to so we just multiply right Took two times cuba

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to five That's a simplified form of the cube root

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there and hopefully fall for neither trick questions they threw

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at you That's it forty is two times cuba to

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five and the answer is a and we're done We're

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