Question

Your friend asks you to help him with his snow shoveling business and will pay you 3 3 pennies for the first job. You agree to help if he triples your payment for each job completed. After 2 2 shoveling jobs, you will receive 9 9 pennies, and after 3 3 shoveling jobs, you will receive 27 27 pennies. What is the exponent?

Answer 1

The exponent is 3

This is how it would look
3^1 (the "^" means 'to the power of')
3^2
3^3


3^1= 3
3^2=9
3^3=27