What is the value of c in the equation below? 2^-4(2^2)=a^b=c

The answer is option 4.

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You have to use Indices Law,

So for this question :

1. is 4 and 2. is 3

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so if you look at the first one you see that 1 is to 4 and 2 is to 8 and so on, so you can see for every 1 there is a times 4 so if it were 3 then it would be 3*4 and it is 12

for number 2 it is 3 because 1 is to 3 and 2 is to 6 so for every 1 there is 3 so if it were 3 then there would be 3*3 = 9

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