1. This is an extension of the quot;
power to a powerquot;
rule. If you have (3x2)3 you can extend it to be (3x2 * 3x2 * 3x2) and use the multiplication rule to simplify to 27x6 . But like with everything else with exponents, there is a short cut.<br />You can do a weird type of distributive property with the exponents....<br />