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Onboarding Documentation: Simplifying Exponential Formulas

As a newly hired operations trainee at an industrial logistics firm, you are assisting in documenting the standard operating procedures for the company's automated inventory scaling software. One of the formulas in the system documentation contains the expression (x6)43(x^6)^{\frac{4}{3}}.

To help your team members who are unfamiliar with algebra, write a short explanation in which you recall and state:

  1. The exact name of the exponent property used to simplify an expression of the form (am)n(a^m)^n.
  2. The general formula for this property.
  3. How this property is applied to simplify the specific expression (x6)43(x^6)^{\frac{4}{3}}, detailing the operation performed on the exponents 6 and 43\frac{4}{3}, and stating the final simplified expression.

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