Applying the rules for exponents to simplifying more complex expressions.
Practice applying the rules for exponents to simplifying complex expressions.
Using more than one of the rules for exponents to simplify expressions written with parentheses.
Expressions that include a negative exponent can be simplified by first rewriting the expression with positive exponents.
The rules for exponents begin with the rule for multiplying two factors with the same base.
Simplifying an expression with more than one base contained within parentheses.
Simplifying expressions in which a fraction is raised to a power.
The rule for raising a power to a power is demonstrated in simplifying a monomial in which an exponent is outside parentheses.
Simplifying an expression with an exponent of zero.
Using the rules for exponents to divide a polynomial by a monomial.