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Chapter 6: Square Roots and Cube Roots > Cube Roots

Cube Roots

If the volume of a cube is 125 cm3, what would be the length of its side?

To get the length of the side of the cube, we need to know a number whose cube is 125.

Finding the square root, as you know, is the inverse operation of squaring.

Similarly, finding the cube root is the operation of finding cube.

We know that 23 =

So, we say that the cube root of 8 is .

We write 38 = 2. The symbol 3 denotes ‘cube-root.’

Consider the following:

StatementInference
13 = 131 = 1
23 = 838 = 323 = 2
33 = 27327 = 333 = 3
43 = 64364 =
53 = 125 3125 =
StatementInference
63 = 2163216 =
73 = 3433343 =
83 = 5123512 =
93 = 7293729 =
103 = 1000 31000 =