You send an email to 8 friends. Then, they each forwarded the email to 8 friends and those friends each forwarded the email to 8 more friends. Write an expression to represent the chain of emails. How many people were sent your original email?
Your friend simplifies the expression. If your friend correct? Explain your reasoning.

The budge to remake a movie is 100 times the budget of the original movie. The original movie’s budget was 10^5 dollars. What is the budget of the remake? Express your answer as a power.
The mass of a small particle of sand is about 0.023 gram. The mass of a small particle of dust is about 2 X 10^3 grams. Approximately how many times larger is the sand particle than the dust particle? Write your answer is scientific notation.
Can a right triangle have a leg that is 10 meters long and a hypotenuse that is 10 meters long? Explain.
Tell whether the points form a right triangle. Justify your reasoning.
(2, 6), (5, -1), and (2, -4)