i) Student A used the property of the power of a power and student B used the definition of power and the property of the product of power with the same base. ii) Both were correct.
How to understand power properties
In this question we must analyze the procedure used by each student to simplify a power into the form rⁿ:
i) The student A used the property of the power of a power which states that [tex](r^{m})^{n} = r^{m\cdot n}[/tex]. In exchange, the student B used the definition of power and the property of the product of powers with the same base.
ii) Based on the description in i), both students used correct methods of simplifying.
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