SOLUTION: could you please show me in which order do you apply the power to? 5y to the 5th power when y = 2 do you times 5 to the 5th power then times by 2 or do you times 5 x2 then

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You said 5y raised to the 5th power, with NO MENTION of PARENTHESES! I will assume that you meant this:

, when y = 2.

So, substitute 2 in place of the y, raise it to the 5th power, which is 32, then multiply the result times 5. It looks like this:





If you had meant , then that would have been quite something else. That would have been to do what is within the parentheses first:



I'm glad you didn't ask THAT one!!

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