Andre and Elena knew that after 28 days they would have 228 coins, but they wanted to find out how many coins that actually is. Andre wrote: 228=2⋅28=56
Elena said, “No, exponents mean repeated multiplication. It should be 28⋅28, which works out to be 784.” Do you agree with either of them? Explain your reasoning.

no, exponents are how many times the base is used, it would be 2x2x2... so on until there are 28 2s

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call the larger triangle abc

then the smaller triangle cde is similar to abc (all angles are equal, aaa).  

ab is the side that is 36, and we wish to find de, the side corresponding to ab

area_cde = area_abc - area_cde --> area_abc / area_cde = 2

let x=length of de

ratio of areas = (ratio of sides)^2

+2+=+%2836%2fx%29%5e2+

+2+=+1296%2fx%5e2+

++x%5e2+=+1296%2f2+=+648+

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