2010 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 24
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What is the correct ordering of the three numbers, , , and ?
Solution 1
Since all of the exponents are multiples of four, we can simplify the problem by taking the fourth root of each number. Evaluating we get , , and . Since , it follows that is the correct answer.
Solution 2
First, let us make all exponents equal to 8. Then, it will be easy to order the numbers without doing any computations. is as fine as it is. We can rewrite as . Then we can rewrite as . We take the eighth root of all of these to get . Obviously, , so the answer is . Solution by Math
Solution 3
We know that . We also know that . If we remove the common factor of from both expressions, we are left with , which equals 256, and , which equals 625. So we know that is bigger than . Now we need to figure out which is bigger, or . To do this, we rewrite as , which is clearly less than . Therefore, is the correct answer.
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