How do you use an exponent to represent a number such as 81?

At dinner, 2/5 of the people had fish and 1/3 had chicken. if everyone else had lamb, what fraction of the people had lamb? and if 40 people had lamb , calculate the total number of people at the dinner.

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Beth took out a $20,000 loan for college she is borrowing money from two banks. bank a charges an interest rate of 8.5% bank b charges and interest rate of 10.5% after one year alice owes $1860 in interest how much money did she borrow from bank a