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Remember that an exponent means repeated multiplication.

The exponent of 4 means you have four 's mutiplied together:

And then each exponent of 2 inside means you have two 's multiplied inside each set of parentheses.:  

There are 8 b's there when you expand this out.

for this case we have the following expression:

to solve, we rewrite the expression as:

we apply double c and we have:

thus, the quotient is 48.

so, patel found a wrong ratio and the multiplication was incorrect.

option d

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