The rule of powers is that when a parenthesis is raised to a power, you multiply the two numbers. Since it is being raised to the second power, it needs to have a 10 in the parenthesis. That would make 20.
2. B
Firstly 10^2 = 100, so we know that the number must be 10. That leaves us with just A and B. Then we know the same thing from the previous equation, that they need to be multiplied together.
subtract "2x" to "4x + 1" and that'll leave -5 by itself and leave 2x+1 on the left and -5 on the right then subtract -1 to -5 and it'll add up to -6 then after that you'd divide 2x to -6 and get -3 and it'll leave 'x' by itself so therefore X = -3
The whole numbers stay the same so it stays as 2. The way they get 30 for the denominator is by multiplying the fraction 1/3 by 10 and 1/5 by 6. So now we have 10/30 and 6/30. Add them together, 10+6=16