L1 | EXPONENTS

• EXPONENT

  • also referred to as powers or indices 
  • the number of times a number is multiplied by itself
• ZERO RULE

  • any term with zero as an exponent is equal to one
• IDENTITY RULE

  • Number raised to 1 is the number itself
• PRODUCT RULE

  • two numbers with the same base, add the exponents.
• QUOTIENT RULE

  • two numbers with the same base, subtract the exponent of the denominator from the exponent of the numerator
• POWER RULE

  • multiply the exponent values.
• NEGATIVE EXPONENT

  • Invert the base to change a negative exponent into a positive.
• POWER OF A PRODUCT RULE

  • When any base is being multiplied by an exponent, distribute the exponent to each part of the base.
• POWER OF A QUOTIENT RULE

  • exponent outside of the parentheses is distributed to each term in the numerator and each term in the denominator.
• FRACTION  EXPONENT

  • the numerator is the power and the denominator is the root.