Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 6
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1. Powers and Exponents
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Exercise 20 Page 7

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

8^4

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We want to write the given product as a power. 8 * 8 * 8 * 8

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. 8* 8* 8* 8_(4 times) We can see that the number 8 is used four times as a factor. Therefore, we have 8 in the base and 4 in the exponent. With that in mind, let's write our product as a power! 8* 8* 8* 8= 8^4