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10.2 Exercise 138

Avg difficulty 2.5

Email Janet emails a joke to six of her friends and tells them to forward it to six of their friends, who forward it to six of their friends, and so on. The number of people who receive the email on the second round is 62,6^{2} , on the third round is 63,6^{3} , as shown in the table. How many people will receive the email on the eighth round? Simplify the expression to show the number of people who receive the email.

Round Number of people
11 66
22 626^{2}
33 636^{3}
…\ldots …\ldots
88 ??

OpenStax Prealgebra 2e, 10.2 Use Multiplication Properties of Exponents, exercise 138

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