The video tutorial covers rational exponents, focusing on evaluating expressions with unit fraction exponents and bases involving signs. It explains how to handle negative signs, evaluate fifth roots, square roots, and cube roots, and addresses imaginary numbers when dealing with negative bases and even indices. The tutorial provides step-by-step instructions for solving these expressions, emphasizing the importance of parentheses and the impact of negative signs on the final result.

What does it mean to evaluate an expression?

• To find its value

• To ignore it

• To rewrite it

• To simplify it

If a negative sign is in front of a number without parentheses, what is the result?

• The result is zero

• The result is negative

• The result is imaginary

• The result is positive

What happens if you have a negative sign in front of a number with no parentheses?

• The result is imaginary

• The result is positive

• The result is zero

• The result is negative

What happens if you have a negative sign in front of a number with no parentheses?

• The result is imaginary

• The result is zero

• The result is negative

• The result is positive

What is the fifth root of 243?

• 7

• 5

• 3

• 9

What is the result of the fifth root of 243?

• 7

• 9

• 3

• 5

Why can't you have a negative number under a radical with an even index?

• It results in a positive number

• It results in an imaginary number

• It results in zero

• It results in a complex number

What is the solution for the square root of negative 49?

• No solution

• Imaginary number

• 7

• 49

What is the fourth root of 16?

• 2

• 4

• 16

• 8

If the negative sign is not in parentheses, what happens to the result?

• The result is imaginary

• The result is zero

• The result is negative

• The result is positive