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This question is giving me problems; the answer is m=35 but I do not know how to solve for it. If anyone could explain:

(1/5)^m * (1/4)^18 = 1/(2(10)^35)


Using we can rewrite the given expression as below.



Using AND we can simplify the above as,





Hence m = 35



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