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Help me figure out how to simplify this please:

Help me figure out how to simplify this please:-example-1
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Think of it this way:
8^3 means you have 3 times 8 multiplied together (8*8*8)
Now this block is raised to the power of 7, so there are 7 blocks of 8*8*8 multiplied together.
How many 8s do we have? 7 blocks of 3s, 7*3=21
Thus n=21
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