Power rules
Laws
Let and be any three real numbers, and and be any two real numbers. Then the following statements hold true:
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Formative assessment
The purpose of the following applet is to practice simplifying algebraic expressions using the Exponent Laws.
Type in your answers in the boxes below (use ^ to write the power; for instance x^3 means ).
References
Weisstein, Eric W. "Exponent Laws." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ExponentLaws.html