Photo math got this wrong :/

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Every answer i get is wrong

every answer photo math gets is wrong

and microsoft math solver started talking in another dam language

[last grove]

...have you tried... thinking about it?

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i followed the dam tutorial for the question part for part

and still got it wrong

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Show your work.

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lemme grab my phone rq

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I see your mistake.

What's 2^2?

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4

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What's 2^3?

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8

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What's 4 * 8?

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32

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Which is 2 to the what?

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5

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Not 6, right?

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yeah

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a^b * a^c = a^(b + c), not a^(bc).

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my brain is not braining

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...do you mean you figured out what you did wrong, or you haven't?

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havent

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y^4 * y^d = ?

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OHHHH ITS d+4

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Yes.

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not 4d

im stupid

XD

thanks for the help :D

[last grove]

You can sanity check it by declaring b and c are positive integers. In that case, a^b = a * a * a * ... * a b times, right?

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👍

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And a^c = a * a * a * ... * a c times.

So a * a * ... * a (b times) * a * a * ... * a (c times) = a * a * ... * a (b + c times), right?

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ya