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Apprentice Training: Recalling Exponent Rules for Volume Scaling

You are a training coordinator at a local manufacturing plant. A new apprentice is trying to calculate the volume of a cubic engine housing. The side length of the housing is represented by 3x2{}3x^2 inches, which means the volume is given by the expression (3x2)3(3x^2)^3 cubic inches.

To help the apprentice understand how to simplify this expression, write a short training guide. In your guide, you must:

  1. State the name of the algebraic property used to distribute the outer exponent of 3 to both factors inside the parentheses (the coefficient and the variable), and write its general formula.
  2. State the name of the algebraic property used to simplify the variable part, (x2)3(x^2)^3, and write its general formula.
  3. Describe the memory-recalled steps to simplify (3x2)3(3x^2)^3, including the evaluation of the numerical coefficient, to arrive at the final simplified volume expression.

Your guide must be clear, accurate, and completely self-contained.

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