Question

What is the purpose of the pow(x,y) function?

(a) To find x^y

(b) To find y^x

(c) To find e^x

(d) To find 10^y

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Answer 1

Right choice is (a) To find x^y

To explain: The pow() function is used to find the value of a number raised to another number. It takes two arguments; the base, and the exponent. The input datatypes are of the float datatype and the output is of the double datatype.