Alexander P. answered 02/06/20
Self taught programmer, works well with kids. M
I'm going to assume there is no equal side of the equation. Working on that remember PEMDAS (easy to remember by Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally - Parent. Exp. Multiplication Div. Addition, Sub.)
2x * x¹ \ 2
2x * x \ 2 (x¹ is just x)
2x * x \ 2 is the simplest way to write it without any other information. Should we know what it equals, we can quickly figure out what x is. Or should we know what x is, we can figure out what this equals.