How do you simplify $[(-6)^2]^3$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-02-17T05:33:26

When we raise a power to another power we multiply the exponents. The result will be $6^6=46656$ (but probably best to leave it as $6^6$ ).

Note that the parentheses are evaluated first, so $-6^2=6^2$ . This means the final result is a positive number.

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