SOLUTION: Please help me solve this exponent:{{{b^-7 x b^9}}}. -thankyou for your help, Breanna

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Question 69006: Please help me solve this exponent:b%5E-7+x+b%5E9.
-thankyou for your help, Breanna
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If you're looking to simplify it, any exponent raised to another exponent can be written as
b%5E%28x%29%5Ey=b%5E%28x%2Ay%29 where b is the base and x and y are random variables
So b%5E-7+x+b%5E9 can be written as b%5E%289%2A%28-7+x+b%29%29 which could simplify to
b%5E%28-63+x+b%29%29