Kyra's school earned #4^6# dollar from the annual fundraiser. How m did the school earn?

1 Answer
Mar 2, 2018

#$4096#

Explanation:

Kyra's school earned #$4096# from the fundraiser.

To solve this problem, you can think about the problem like this:

#4*4*4*4*4*4#

So, first, look at the first part, #color(red)(4*4)*4*4*4*4#. Since #4*4= 16#, then, the equation can be simplified to

#16*4*4*4*4#

Now, look at this section of the problem, #16* color(red)(4*4)*4*4#. Since we established earlier that #4*4# is equal to #16#, the equation you have now is

#16*16*4*4#

Like before, we can look at the next part of this equation, #16*16*color(red)(4*4)#. Once again, #4*4# is equal to #16#. So the equation is now simplified to

#16*16*16#

So now, we can look at the #16*16#. That equals #256#.

#256*16# is what you have now.

After simplifying that, you end up with 4096, which is the answer.