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Muliplying exponents

User Alireza Mazloumi
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In order to multiply terms with the same base, we can use the following property:


a^b\cdot a^c=a^(b+c)

So we have that:


\begin{gathered} 5^3\cdot x^2\cdot x^(-3)\cdot5^3\cdot x^4 \\ =5^3\cdot5^3\cdot x^2\cdot x^(-3)^{}\cdot x^4 \\ =5^(3+3)\cdot x^(2-3+4) \\ =5^6\cdot x^3 \end{gathered}

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