How do you simplify $(n^3p)^4$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2017-01-26T13:26:23

See the entire simplification process below:

To simplify this expression use these two rules of exponents:

$a = a^color(red)(1)$

$(x^color(red)(a))^color(blue)(b) = x^(color(red)(a) xx color(blue)(b))$

We can now rewrite and simplify the expression as:

$(n^3p)^4 -> (n^3p^color(red)(1))^4 -> n^(3xx4)p^(color(red)(1)xx4) ->$

$n^12p^4$

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