Question

x^y=3 and x^t=16, what does x^y-t equal?

Answer 1

@butterflydreamer could you help me with this problem please?

Answer 2

Is that x raised to the y power?

Answer 3

\[x ^{y} = 3; x ^{t} = 16\]

Answer 4

is that right your problem

Answer 5

yeah

Answer 6

its a bit confusing and it is ment to be confused

Answer 7

x^y = 3
t = 16
16 - 3

Answer 8

13

Answer 9

yup

Answer 10

the answer says it's 1/8 though, that's what got me confused...

Answer 11

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Answer 12

Yea, I am really confused was to what the problem is asking. Are you in the studying logrhythms?

Answer 13

is it round ur answer t o2 decimal or three decimal places

Answer 14

yeah but this is from the SAT so it shouldn't involve logrhythms?

Answer 15

nope

Answer 16

whts the full form of sat

Answer 17

what?

Answer 18

x^y = 3
should we do 3^2

Answer 19

what?

Answer 20

that equals 9

Answer 21

i know that 3 squared is 9 but what does that have to do with the original question?

Answer 22

may x is 3 and y is 1, thus 3^1 equals 3, but that does explain how you get 16