#Help. Multiplying with exponents

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sharp plover
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I am familiar with questions like 5^5 • 5^2= 5^7 but how do you do questions like 4^4 • 6^4 without a calculator?

I am asking this because I want to learn new things.

lone masonBOT
slate gulch
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Since the exponents are both 4, you can simplify 4^4 * 6^4 = (4*6)^4. Not sure if that really counts as solving it though. But I think it is slightly easier to compute that way

sharp plover
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Oh ok thank you