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[astral flicker]

can someone help me with this ????

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[rose wadi]

What does it say?

[astral flicker]

!!!!

[rose wadi]

x>-4

Right?

[fallen silo]

...the answer isn't a number.

[astral flicker]

wait

no

[fallen silo]

Why have you even written 21?

[rose wadi]

What is the set of all numbers greater than -4?

[fallen silo]

Might be jumping the gun.

[rose wadi]

Fair

@astral flicker it’s an inequality

Not an equation

[astral flicker]

I know

[fallen silo]

That does not remotely answer my question.

Why did you divide 64 by 3?

[astral flicker]

Because its supposed to work like that

sorry for bad english

[fallen silo]

...it's really not.

[astral flicker]

oh

[rose wadi]

So, @astral flicker, you’re supposed to take the cube root on both sides

Since x is cubed

Not multiplied by 3

[fallen silo]

Stop

You're making the same mistake over and over.

[astral flicker]

sorry☹️

[rose wadi]

That’s also wrong, but why are you changing topic?

Wait, did u get the previous one?

Neither the option you chose nor the one you inputted are right (1st one)

[astral flicker]

ok it just gave me the answer

[astral flicker]

yes

[fallen silo]

Do you want to learn how to answer these questions?

[rose wadi]

What is it?

[astral flicker]

yes !!!!

[rose wadi]

?tag helping

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[fallen silo]

Then you need to stop and listen.

[astral flicker]

ok Im listening

[fallen silo]

So number one. When you have the number above and to the right, that's what we call an exponent.

[rose wadi]

Wait rq, what did u get for the first one? Sorry to interrupt

[fallen silo]

I think they meant that they got it wrong so many times that it just told them the answer.

[rose wadi]

So they still don’t know how to solve it?

[fallen silo]

Obviously not, they're still making the same mistakes.

[fallen silo]

@astral flicker Do you understand this much?

[astral flicker]

ok Im back

[astral flicker]

no

[rose wadi]

K, so u understand that multiplication is not the same as exponentiation, right?

[astral flicker]

what is exponation

exponentation

[rose wadi]

x^y

[astral flicker]

ok

[astral flicker]

yes

[rose wadi]

Or x times x times x… y times

Yeah, so you can’t divide to get rid of an exponent

What you do is, if you have a = b^y, you take the yth root on both sides

[astral flicker]

but if 2 x 2 x 2 = 8 then 8 divided by

ahh ok

I get it

thank u

[rose wadi]

Yeah

Is that it?

[astral flicker]

yes

I know what I was doing wrong

[rose wadi]

You can close the thread if you no longer have doubts

[astral flicker]

ok thank u