Bell Ringer, Sam the Squirrel found a basket
of pine cones one morning. He
decided that every day he would
double the number of pine cones in
the basket in the morning and eat 2
pine cones out of the basket in the afternoon.
At the end of the third day, there were 34 pine
cones in the basket.
How many pine cones were in the basket
when Sam the Squirrel found it?
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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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