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    Sep 10, 2007, 04:05 PM
    Adding Exponents
    2^2(3^2+4^2)
    10^2[
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    Sep 10, 2007, 04:12 PM
    Okay, adding exponents, to what purpose
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    Sep 10, 2007, 04:35 PM
    Well, it is for school.
    And I do not understand how to work this problem.
    Every time I attempt to solve it, I get a different answer.
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    Sep 10, 2007, 06:07 PM
    The answer is 1. Is that what you got?
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    Sep 10, 2007, 09:01 PM
    Exponentiation has preference followed by (mult and div) and then (addition and substraction)

    Re-writing as:

    (2*2)*((3*3)+(4*4))/(10*10) = (4*(9+16))/100 = 1
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