12 nuts an hour for 12 hours on 12 days. Write an expression with and without exponents to find how many nuts the squirrel collected.
Two students provided these answers.
Student A Student B
123 123
12⋅3 12⋅12⋅12
36 nuts 1,728 nuts
Which student is correct? Explain what the incorrect student did incorrectly.
Student B is correct.
Student A incorrectly multiplied 12 and 3 instead of using exponents to represent 12 raised to the power of 3. The correct expression should be 12^3 to represent 12 multiplied by itself 3 times, which equals 1,728 nuts.