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And here's your shmoop du jour

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Simplify the expression to eight of the fourth times for [Question appears]

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a to the negative second And here the potential answers

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All right before we spoil the ending hit pause Try

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it yourself..... All right Remember order of operations or PEMDAS

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Please excuse my dear aunt sally or princes Exponents

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multiplication vision An addition Subtraction Well pen does tells us

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to work with the variables inside the parentheses first two

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and four a can't get any simpler so we can

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move to the explosion We have the quantity to eight

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of the fourth which means that we take two to

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the fourth here which is sixteen times eight to the

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fourth So sixteen a to the forth it is next

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We have the quantity four A to the negative second

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Don't forget that little negative next to the two in

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the exponents it'll hurt you Remember that negative exponents basically

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just mean one over We can move the four A into

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the denominator and square it which simplifies the fraction as

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one over sixteen times a squared When we multiply sixteen

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eight of the fourth and one over sixteen a squared

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we can cancel out the sixteen over sixteen to be

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just one over one or one and cancel the aide

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to the fourth over a squared to a squared This

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leaves us with a squared or the answer which also

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happens to be a now let's Get out of here

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before And sally sets his whole place on fire Ah [Aunt sally goes up in flames]

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