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When evaluating, what will be the exponent of 10 in the quotient?
3
4
8
16

When evaluating, what will be the exponent of 10 in the quotient? 3 4 8 16-example-1
User Corepress
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In this case it would be 8
User Saunik Singh
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For this case we have the following division:


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Rewriting the product we have:


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By definition we have to:

In the divison, if we have the same base we subtract the exponents.

We have then:


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Answer:

The exponent of 10 in the division will be:

8

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