Nt1310 Unit 2 Assignment 2

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Reading this question, I experienced a high level of mathematics anxiety, I realised I could solve this question however I hesitated. I was contemplating ‘how I was going to communicate and explain my thinking?’ Initially to solve this question I utilised ‘the order of operations’, this is a knowledge I previously developed and indicates ‘multiplication and division are always completed before addition and subtraction’ in mathematics. I referred to a text book to extend my understanding, and according to Van de Walle (2010), ‘the power of two’ is an exponent which in this question is merely a shorthand interpretation for repeated multiplication of a number, times by itself. Therefore, I began with Claire’s number ‘n’ and multiplied it by

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