Question

A class is given this question on a test about exponents: A squirrel collects 12 nuts an hour for 12 hours on 12 days. Write an expression with and without exponents to find how many nuts the squirrel collected. Two students provided these answers. Student A Student B 123 123 12⋅3 12⋅12⋅12 36 nuts 1,728 nuts Which student is correct? Explain what the incorrect student did incorrectly. (2 points)

Answer 1

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Student B is correct. The incorrect student, Student A, only multiplied the numbers 12 and 3 together, without considering the other factors (hours and days) that contribute to the total number of nuts collected.

Answer 2

Gloria needs to use properties of operations to find an equivalent expression for the expression 7f+18−8(3−f) . She wants to write the expression in its simplest form. Show the steps Gloria will follow to write an equivalent expression in simplest form. For each of the first two steps, write what property of operations Gloria used.(4 points)