8. You are making a salad. The ratio of tomatoes to cucumbers is 8: 2. You put 16 cucumbers in
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For this case we have the following expression:
We multiply both sides by:
We divide both sides by 216:
To divide powers of the same base, we place the same base and subtract the exponents:
Rewriting:
To multiply powers of the same base, we place the same base and add the exponents:
We know that any number raised to zero is 1,
So, for equality to be true:
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