Question

need help on exponents can any one help

Answer 1

like wat exponentials

Answer 2

like wat exponentials

Answer 3

like six squered i know the answer but i dont know how to work it out

Answer 4

well 6*6=?

Answer 5

its that simple

Answer 6

We do assume you know how to perform multiplication of two whole numbers. Other than that, powers are just a way to tidy up some markings we run into when handling products of numbers or more complex expressions.

Let's take for example the following:
\[2^3\]
This is NOT two times three. It is a short-hand marking for the repeated multiplication \[2\times2\times2\] where we have three twos multiplied together. Number here is called base and the three written as a superindex is the exponent. It tells how many times the base number occurs in the product. And, of course: \[2\times2\times2=8\]
That's it, at its basic level, exponentiation is just a way to write long products of the same number in shorter way.

More examples:
\[4^5=4\times4\times4\times4\times4\]\[6^3=6\times6\times6\]\[3^1=3\]

Raisin a number to the power of two is also called squaring. This name comes from the geometric situation of finding the area of a square. If a square has a side length of, say, \[l,\]then the area of the square is "side times side", or \[l\times l\] which can be also written in the form \[l^2\].

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