Question

When a product is raised to a power, it is equal to the product of each factor raised to that power. Show that this rule does not apply for a sum or difference to a power using the problem (5 – 3)2. You may indicate an exponent in your answer with ^. For example, 3x2 as 3x^2.

Answer 1

In this instance you would do what is inside the parentheses first and then use the exponent. Therefore it would be 3^2 and your answer is 9.

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