Question

Rewrite 2 x 2^4 as an expression as a single power

Answer 1

If you're wanting it alone just with the exponents, here is how you're going to do it:

Technically, the 2 alone has a power, and it's simply just one. When exponents are being used in numbers multiplying together, they add.

So, to simplify this it'd be 2^5.

If you're wanting the actual answer, you would do exponents first. Remember that exponents are just the number being multiplied by itself x times:

                                   2 x 2 x 2 x 2 = 16

Now we just need to multiply this by 2 and you'll get 32.

OR, if you do the 2^5, you'll still get 32!