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Algebra Difficulty 1.2 Junior Find the answer Canada

The right side of the equation below represents some number of
$4$ s added together. $4^3 = 4 + 4 + 4 + \cdots + 4$ How many
$4$ s are in the sum?

Pick one

Solution

Evaluated, the left side of the equation is equal to $4^3=64$ . Since $\dfrac{64}{4}=16$ , then the number of
$4$ s in the sum on the right side of
the equation is $16$ .

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