document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1087362>Question 1087362</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Problem: https://pasteboard.co/GAszZO2.png\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Could someone help me with this?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "I would greatly appreciate it if you were to solve it step-by-step, if it's too much work then don't worry about it. Thank you. </SPAN>\n" );
document.write( "</I><HR><TABLE width=100%><TR><TD><B><A HREF=http://www.algebra.com/>Algebra.Com's</A> Answer #701621 by </B><A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=jim_thompson5910><B>jim_thompson5910(35256)</B></A><img src=\"/images/stars/stars-13.gif\" alt=\"\" >&nbsp;<A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=jim_thompson5910><IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/images/aboutme-small.gif BORDER=0 alt=\"About Me\" VALIGN=MIDDLE></A>&nbsp;<IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/images/nopicture.jpg><BR>You can <A HREF=\"/cgi-bin/embed-solution.mpl?show=1&solution=701621\">put this solution on YOUR website!</A><BR><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> <font color=\"black\" face=\"times\" size=\"3\">There's bad news and there's good news. The bad news is that yes, this looks like a very messy problem. If we focus on the expression shown below\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Then it will take a bit of steps to simplify. \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "However, notice how that expression (mentioned above) is surrounded by another set of parenthesis and that block is raised to the exponent of 0.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Recall that anything to the 0th power, except 0 itself, is 1. In other words, <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=x%5E0+=+1 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"x%5E0+=+1\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" > where x can't equal 0, but x can be any other number you want. \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "So the good news is that while the expression looks nasty, we can essentially use one step to get the final answer using the identity <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=x%5E0+=+1 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"x%5E0+=+1\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" >\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The final answer is 1.</font> </SPAN>\n" );
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