Can someone help with this symbol?

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My dd has a worksheet with these arrow symbols on. Does anyone know what they mean? She doesn't know and I cannot find anything online that looks like this.

I did have the benefit of working back from the answer by the time I saw the post!

I'd assume that teacher has copied and pasted and the font has messed up.

I didn't and was trying all sorts of things eg was the question written badly and was really meant to be 3/14 is equivalent to 7(power 2) / 3 (power 5... close but not close enough.

Re fonts, with the exception of graphic fonts such as wingbats etc, all of the standard characters have pretty much the same numerical underlying value irrespective of font. As it's a long day, I've enter X x and * into MS word and quickly scrolled through all of the embedded fonts and with the exception of Wingbats and few other graphic fonts, the symbols don't change. Curious to know now. Another possibility but unlikely is that the printer driver software is incorrect for the printer and cannot handle odd characters. Ah well... another mystery of another day.

Thanks for the help everyone. Its a bit of a mystery and the wrong symbol makes sense. However, this is another question that has the x symbol in the correct place as well as these weird arrows. It is a printed worksheet.

In that last picture it definitely should be a multiplication sign. There is some problem when it is in a fraction.

Yep, agree - it's definitely meant to be a multiplication sign, and there is something going awry with the printing/fonts in fractions.

Yeah it's definitely a multiplication sign. Thank god 😂 I consider myself pretty good at maths but I was baffled.

Dd did A level last year and never came across it. Misprint?

Is it (.) maybe? A dot can be used to signify multiplication (mid height but can’t get that on ipad)

Thanks everyone. I'm glad there is a simple explanation. Hopefully she'll be able to work through these now.

And yet taking the first one, how can 2 to the power 6 plus 2 to the power 4 equal the same as 2 to the power 6 divided by 2 to the power 4?.... the rest of the same equation almost makes sense...

You cancel out 4 of the top 2s with 4 of the bottom 2s to leave 2x2 = 2² (is that what they mean)?

It's a ÷ sign not a +

I agree it should be a divide sign but on my phone it still looks like a plus even when zoomed. I guess it's what happens when your take a photo of something that's been photocopied off something that might have been an image etc. The resolution deteriorates. The sums themselves are straightforward when you accept the mid-typing / poor clarity.