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Click to review the online content. Then answer the question(s) below, using complete sentences. Scroll down to view additional questions. Online Content: Site 1 Online Content: Site 2 Describe how you would use the rules of exponents to simplify (7x2yz)3. You may indicate an exponent in your answer with ^. For example, 3x2 y2as 3x^2y^2. (Site 1)

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Answer:

First, apply the power of a product rule by which you raise each factor to the power 3, and then multiply all the factors, to obtain:


(7x^2yz)^3=7^3(x^2)^3y^3z^3

Next, apply the power of a power rule, in virtue of which you raise the factor x² to the power 3 and obtain:


7^3(x^2)^3y^3z^3=7^3x^6y^3z^3

Finally, compute the numerical values, doing 7³ = 7×7×7 = 343.

Therefore, the final result is:


343x^6y^3z^3

Step-by-step explanation:

The expression you have to simplify is:


(7x^2yz)^3

You have to apply two rules:

  • 1. Power of a product
  • 2. Power of a power

1. Power of a product

This rule states that the power of a product is equal to the product of each factor raised to the same exponent of the whole prduct:

For instance:


(abc)^z=a^z\cdot b^z\cdot c^z

Using this with the expression
(7x^2yz)^3 it is:


(7x^2yz)^3=7^3\cdot (x^2)^3\cdot y^3\cdot z^3

In complete sentences that is: raise every factor, 7, x², x, and z to the exponent 3 and, then, multiply them.

2. Power of a power:

This rule states that to raise a power to a power, you must multiply the exponents.

For instance:


(a^n)^m=a^(m* n)

You must apply that rule to the factor
(x^2)^3

That is:


(x^2)^3=x^((3* 2))=x^6

3. Final result and description using complete sentences:

The first step is to apply the power of a product rule by rasing each factor to the power 3, and then multiply all the factors, to obtain:


(7x^2yz)^3=7^3(x^2)^3y^3z^3

The second step is to apply the power of a power rule, in virtue of which you raise the factor x² to the power 3, in this way:


7^3(x^2)^3y^3z^3=7^3x^6y^3z^3

The last step is to calculate the numerical values, doing 7³ = 7×7×7 = 343.

The final result is:
343x^6y^3z^3

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