SOLUTION: Problem: https://pasteboard.co/GAszZO2.png Could someone help me with this? I would greatly appreciate it if you were to solve it step-by-step, if it's too much work then don

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Question 1087362: Problem: https://pasteboard.co/GAszZO2.png
Could someone help me with this?
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.
Found 2 solutions by jim_thompson5910, josgarithmetic:
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source):
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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

Then it will take a bit of steps to simplify.

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However, notice how that expression (mentioned above) is surrounded by another set of parenthesis and that block is raised to the exponent of 0.

Recall that anything to the 0th power, except 0 itself, is 1. In other words, where x can't equal 0, but x can be any other number you want.

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

The final answer is 1.

Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A slightly complicated expression RAISED TO THE 0 POWER:
Equivalent to 1.