Cube Root of 17.5

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What is the cube root of 17.5?

Answer

∛17.5 ≈
2.5962

Real cube root: the only number whose cube is 17.5.

≈ — rounded to 4 decimal places. 17.5 is not the cube of a rational number, so ∛17.5 is irrational: its decimal expansion never ends and never repeats.

Between cubes
2³ = 8 < 17.5 < 27 = 3³, so 2 < ∛17.5 < 3 and ∛17.5 ≈ 2.5962

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What is the cube root of 17.5?

∛17.5 ≈ 2.5962

How to find ∛17.5 without a calculator?

Bracket it between cubes: 2³ = 8 < 17.5 < 27 = 3³, so ∛17.5 lies between 2 and 3. Narrowing the bracket digit by digit gives ∛17.5 ≈ 2.5962; 17.5 is not the cube of a decimal, so the root never ends.

Is ∛17.5 a rational number?

No: 17.5 is not the cube of a rational number, and the cube root of a fraction p/q in lowest terms is rational only when p and q are both cubes. So ∛17.5 is irrational; its decimal never ends and never repeats: ∛17.5 ≈ 2.5962.