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Your classmate says 8 to the tenth power times 8 to the third power is equivalent to 8 to the 30th power identify the mistake and give the correct expression#please show your work

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The mistake he did was multiplying the exponents. When multiplying exponents with the same base (8), all you have to do is add the exponents. so the correct term would be 8^13.
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