Joshua W. answered 01/11/15
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The order in which you multiply a series of items does not matter so the problem can be rewritten:
2*5*6*x*x*x
2*5*6=60
When we multiply the three x's together, each x is being raised to the 1st power so it can be rewritten
(x^1)*(x^1)*(x^1)
According to the laws of exponents, when we multiply numbers that have the same bases, we can simply add the exponents, so we add the three 1's together to get three:
(x^1)*(x^1)*(x^1)=x^3
ANSWER:60x^3