How do you simplify (m2p5)3?

1 Answer
Oct 22, 2017

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Explanation:

The teaching bit

By example suppose we had the variable a

This may be written as a1

Now compare to a×a×a=a3=a1+1+1

So if we had (a2)3 this would be the same as a2×3=a6

If you have doubts! : 22×22=4×4=16=22×2=16
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Answering the question

Using the above approach we have:

(m2×3)×(p5×3)

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