The exponential form of an expression is representing multiple multiplications of the same term in a more condensed form using an exponent.
For example, if we have:
We can express this in the exponential form:
where the exponent represents the number of times that we multiply the same term.
In this case, we have the expression:
We have three times the term -8x multiplied by -8x. We express this in the exponential form as follows:
We use the parentheses around -8x because the whole expression is multiplied 3 times, thus the whole expression -8x has to have the exponent.
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