Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 6
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1. Powers and Exponents
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Exercise 18 Page 7

An exponent is the count of times a number, called a base, is used as a factor.

2^5

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We want to write the given product as a power. 2* 2* 2* 2* 2

To do so, we should identify the base and the exponent. An exponent is the count of times a number, called a base, is used as a factor. Let's look for both of them in the given product. 2* 2* 2* 2* 2_(5times) We can see that the number 2 is used five times as a factor. Therefore, we have 2 in the base and 5 in the exponent. With that in mind, let's write our expression as a power! 2* 2* 2* 2* 2= 2^5