Is h with an exponent of 2, be the same as h x h?

Hector and alex traded video games. alex gave hector one fourth of his video games in exchange for 6 video games. then he sold 3 video games and gave 2 video games to his brother. alex ended up with 16 video games. how many video games did alex have when he started?

What is the slope of the line passing through the points (-5, 7) and (-3,5)?

At the movie theatre, child admission is $5.20 and adult admission is $9.70. on sunday three time as many adult tickets as child tickets were sold, for a total sales of $788.90. how many child tickets were sold that day?