Why when we multiply polynomials do we add our exponents and when we add polynomials, we leave the
exponents the same?

Parks is wearing several rubber bracelets one third of the bracelets are tie dye 1/6 are blue and 1/3 of the remainder are camouflage if park swears to camouflage bracelets how many bracelets does he have on

Last year, a state university received 3,560 applications from boys. of those applications, 35 percent were from boys who lived in other states. part a)how many applications did the university receive from boys who lived in other states? part b)applications to the university from boys represented 40percent of all applications. how many applications did the university receive in all? i don't how to do part b so me and plz tell how you got your answer

It took alice 5 5/6 hours to drive to her grandparents' house for . on the way home, she ran into traffic and it took her 7 3/8 hours. how much longer did the return trip take? write your answer as a proper fraction or mixed number in simplest form. the trip home took __hours longer. ?