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The Effects of Raising Numbers to the Powers of Other Numbers

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An exponential means you have some number in the exponent of another number and you raise it to that power. This is how you calculate interest rates on mortgages. Had people been fluent in exponentials in 2008, they could have said when the bank says approved, "I'm going with a 30 year fix"

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