a concession stand sells bags of popcorn for 3$ and cotton candy for 2$. a customer purchased bags of popcorn as well as cotton candy and spent 12$. If the customer brought 3 orders of cotton candy, how many bags of popcornwere purchased?

they purchased 2 bags of popcorn

the answer is:

the answer is:

to solve the problem, we need to remember the quotient of power property, it's defined by the following relation:

if we have a quotienf of powers that have the same base, we need to keep the same base and subtract the exponent of the denominator power to the exponent of the numerator power.

so, we are given the expression:

then, calculating we have:

hence, the answer is:

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