Question

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Answer 1

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Answer:

  b⁶

Step-by-step explanation:

The question tells you how to work it: use the relations you studied.

Here, you have the power of an expression with an exponent. The exponents multiply.

  $\text{Rule: }(a^b)^c=a^{bc}\\\\\text{Appication: }(b^3)^2=b^{3\cdot2}=\boxed{b^6}$

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Additional comment

A coefficient is used to indicate repeated addition: 3x = x + x + x.

An exponent is used to indicate repeated multiplication: x³ = x·x·x.

This is still true when the exponent is applied to an expression with an exponent:

  (b³)² = (b³)(b³) . . . . the factor b³ is repeated 2 times as indicated by the exponent 2

Of course, each of these indicates repeated multiplication, so we really have ...

  (b³)(b³) = (b·b·b)·(b·b·b) = b·b·b·b·b·b

And this can be simplified using an exponent to show the repeated multiplication:

  = b⁶

Then, by going the long way around, we arrive at ...

  (b³)² = b⁶