A scientist has discovered an organism that produces five offspring exactly one hour after its own birth, and then goes on to
live for one week without producing any additional offspring. Each replicated organism also replicates at the same rate. At hour
one, there is one organism. At hour two, there are five more organisms. How many total organisms are there at hour seven?

Multiple choice or not?

Look, when you want to do something like put it like x^2. x2 could mean x² or x₂. so to clear confusion, know the notation. to find the product multiply the x's and you get -8x and the y's and you get 6y. since it's all being multiplied it is just -8x6y, or answer a. although the better answer is -48xy(combining -8 and 6) because you should multiply constants whenever you can.