Which did you include in your response?
To apply the product of powers rule, the bases must
be the same.
In this example, the bases are 2 and 3, so they are
not the same.

Which problem would you use the following proportion to solve for? 24/x=40/100 a. what is 40% of 24? b. what percent is 24 of 40? c. twenty-four is 40% of what number? d. forty percent of 24 is what number?