How many products?

Question

If she cubed 5, squared 10, and then found the product of two results.  What was the products?

Answer 1

To find a product we need to multiply.  But this is not our first step in solving, it is our last.

 

You have two values that are being changed, 5 and 10.  When you take a number to certain "powers" or "exponents," it is as if you are multiplying your number by itself as many times as the value of "power" or "exponent" is.

 

5 is being cubed, which means raised to the power of 3 -->  5³  = 5 x 5 x 5  = answer "Z" (let's call it)

 

10 is being squared, which means raised to the power of 2 --> 10² = 10 x 10 = answer "Y" (let's call it)

 

After doing these two calculations you multiply them together to get the product.

 

"Z" x "Y" = answer