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a publisher sells 10 to the sixth power copies of a new book. each book has 10 to the. second power pages. how many pages total are there in all of the books sold. write answer using exponents

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10^6 * 10^2 = 10^8 pages

This is because of the indices laws, when you multiply two numbers with the same base number, the powers that the number is raised to are added.

x^n + x^m = x^(n+m)
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