I am trying to understand what it means when a variable or a function is static, but still not sure as to what it is. I understand this theoratically, but not sure as to how to when I should use this and how to apply this even in OOP when using the :: symbol?

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rografmiming CSC 101 Introduction VB Bau Section21436.02. Sntinn 2022 ta46581 OPRIV NEXTO Workbench Exercise 40443- deadne 04020022 1150 PM WORK AREA toThePowerOf is a function thet accepts two int parameters and returns the value of the first parameter raised to the power of the second. An int variable cubeside has aiready been deciared and initialized. Another int vaciable, cubevolume, has already been declared. Write a statement that calls toThePowerof to compute the value of cubeside raised to the power of 3, and store this value in cubevolume. SUBMIT 1 of 1: Sat Apr 02 2022 23:03:03 GMT-0400 (Eastern Dayilght Time) Type your selution here.