Explaining roots

The square root: you ask yourself, which number has been multiplied with itself that for example 4 (or any other value) is the result?

So you have 4

Which number mulitpled x * x results in the value 4?

As you can imagine 2*2 = 4, so the solution is 2 -> The square root of 4 is 2

Example 2

The third root, you ask yourself, which number has been multiplied with itself 3 times that for example 8 (or any other value) is the result?

As you can imagine 2*2*2 = 8, so the solution is again 2 -> The third root of 8 is 2

You can do that with every number. Eg. 5th root of 25 is = 2

You can write every root also as a fraction eg: