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Question: How would we do problems such as the following?
 
Yours Truly answers: First, we note that  48 = 24·3  and  x6 = x4·x2. The tricky part is that
The absolute value is needed only if the exponent is even. In this case, the exponent is  4. Therefore,


This completes the solution.
 
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