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Yolanda says 10 to the 5th power is the same as 50 because 10×5=50. what was yoland's mistake?

User GxG
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her mastake was that to the tens power mean times its self so the answer would be 100,000
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when it's 5th to the power you do the number by itself how many times the power is so the correct way would be


10×10×10×10×10
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