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put this solution on YOUR website!The cube of x is written
Raising this to the 5 power is written as
Notice that
represents
multiplied by itself 5 times ... or:
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and we multiply common terms with exponents by adding the exponents to get:
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which simplifies to
The shorthand way of doing this is to use the rule that when a term with an exponent is raised to another exponent, you multiply the two exponents. In this case:
is found by multiplying the 3 by the 5 to get
Hope this helps you to understand exponents a little more.
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