According to the associative property of equality: (a + b) + c = a + (b + c) we can see that the parenthesis do not mean anything when we are only doing addition.
So answers 1. and 3. are correct.
<em>Thanks Associative Property!</em>
Not sure sorry edit : oh sorry I was suppose to add this in the comment section
9 to the 3rd power is 729
And 2 to the 5th power is 32. You multiple 9, 3 times. 9 times 9 times 9 and you multiply 2, five times. 2 times 2 times 2 times 2 times 2
