Let’s first look at how to raise an exponent to a power.
Example
As an example let’s use the following:
(52)3 = 52 x 52
x 52
Base don the rules we use din the multiplication examples earlier
we can see that this will result in 56. We could have also done this
by the following:
(52)3= 52 x 3
= 56
Now let’s raise a product to a power. Here is our example:
(6 x 3)2
To solve this problem we raise each number inside the brackets to
the power and than multiply them together.
(6 x 3)2 = 62 x 32 = 324
When we are raising a quotient to a power we can solve it in a
similar manner. Here is an example:
(4/5)3 = 43/53 = 0.512
Remember we can only add or subtract terms which have like terms. |