placeholderLatex Inconsistency

I’m using placeholderLatex for three different math responses on the same slide. One of them displays the way I would expect, with the text disappearing when you click in the box, but the other two are showing text that doesn’t disappear. Anyone know what’s going on or how I can fix it?

The text that is working is:
placeholderLatex: y=(x+?)(x+?)

Neither of these is working:
placeholderLatex: y=x^2+?x+?
placeholderLatex: y=(x+?)^2+?

I don’t know why but you can solve the problem by surrounding the exponents with curly brackets:

placeholderLatex: y=x^{2}+?x+?

https://teacher.desmos.com/activitybuilder/custom/673ed991ef780558fe6c8672

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Agree. Not sure why it fixes it. You can ensure correct latex formatting by first typing into an expression line in the calculator, then copy-pasting into CL.

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Awesome, thanks so much for your help!

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