You can put this solution on YOUR website! For this problem, the power rule of exponents applies. That rule states that when you raise
a quantity that has an exponent to a power, you multiply the exponents and use this product
as the exponent of the base. For example:
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Applying this rule to your problem you have:
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and the answer you are looking for is
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you can also look at it this way:
. by definition. If you raise to the 6th power you multiply it
by itself 6 times. That is you have:
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but then on the right side you can replace each by and when you
do that the equation becomes:
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and when you count all the a's on the right side you get 18 of them, all multiplied
together. This means that:
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which is the same answer that we got when we multiplied the exponent 3 times the exponent 6
to get the resulting exponent of 18.
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Hope this helps you to see what is going on with this problem.
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