How do you use laws of exponents to simplify $2^4 * 2^3 * 2^5$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-08-03T15:35:16

I found: $2^12=4096$

Remember that you have:
$y^a*y^b=y^(a+b)$

for example if you have:
$2^2*2^3=2^(2+3)=2^5=32$
in fact:
$2^2=4$
$2^3=8$ and
$4*8=32$ !!!

So, in your case you have:
$2^(4+3+5)=2^12=4096$

How do you use laws of exponents to simplify 2^4 * 2^3 * 2^52^4 * 2^3 * 2^5?