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by Ian Stewart » Mon Jul 07, 2008 5:44 am
If the answer choices were different, this would be more difficult, but as is, we know:

sqrt(4) = 2
cube root(4) > 1
fourth root(4) > 1

so the sum is greater than 4. E.
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