does 3 with exponent of 2 + 5 with exponent of 2 = 8 with exponent of 2?

Question

please tell me if my answer is true or false

Answer 1

DanG and ann had different interpretation of what you meant. If you are going to ask a mathematical question, you have to be able to ask it with mathematical precision. At first I thought 2+5 was the exponent of 3, and that 2 was then the exponent of (2+5), so that you would be talking about 3 raised to the power of 7 squared!

But I bet DanG 's interpretation is what you meant to write, and your teacher assigned this problem for a good reason. I have taught math for years, and this kind of mistake will sink some students time after time after time. So it is really important, for your future math courses (even if you think you won't take any more....you never know what might happen in college) that you understand this.

I call it "mathematics by wishful thinking" , and there are many examples of it:

3 squared + 5 squared is not 8 squared (your example)
square root of 3 + square root of 5 is not square root of 8
tan 3 + tan 5 is not tan 8
log 3 + log 5 is not log 8

and on and on.

Answer 2

nope..
(3^2+5)^2=8^2
3^14 is not equal to 64

Answer 3

9 + 25 = 64? FALSE

Answer 4

idk im just gonna say true i don't really feel like solving it but if u give me a few min ill actually solve it