To win the annual read-a-thon at his school, Marco has to read more books than any of his classmates over winter break. He starts by reading a lot of sports books. Then, he reads 8 mystery books. In all, Marco reads 24 books for the read-a-thon. Write an equation to represent this problem, then solve for b

An is a number that is written without a component. it is a number that is either or . an exponent is a or a number that another number is being to. the number that is being raised to a is called the . the or power tells you how many times to the base by . if an exponent is fractional then ask yourself the question: what when multiplied by itself a certain number of times will equal the number?