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Question from Kadeejah, a student: Write the prime factorization of 37 in exponential form |
Hi,
"Exponential form" means anything that contains exponents. Hence if you had asked to write the prime factorization of 72 in exponential form I would have answered
\[72 = 2^3 \; 3^2 .\]
For your problem however 37 is a prime so I suppose you could write
\[37 = 37^1 .\]
Penny
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