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.