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How do you simplify #k(k^3)#?

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Jan 23, 2017

See the entire simplification process below:

Explanation:

We will use these two rules of exponents to simplify this expression:

#a = a^color(red)(1)#

#x^color(red)(a) xx x^color(blue)(b) = x^(color(red)(a) +color(blue)(b))#

We can rewrite this expression as:

#k xx k^3 -> k^1 xx k^3 -> k^(1 + 3) -> k^4#

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