You can combine like variables but not unlike variables.
So, for example, x2 * x2 = x4 but x2 * y2 does not equal xy4!
Let's make x equal 2 and y equal 3 just to demonstrate this.
So if x2 * x2 = x4 then 22 * 22 = 24 which would mean 4 * 4 = 16 (Yes, that's right)
But x2 * y2 can not be combined. 22 * 32 = 4 * 9 = 36 (which is not equal to a combination of x and y to the power 4).
when two numbers are multiplied together that are exponents you multiply the bases amd add the exponents the relationship would simply be that the product exponents are the sum of the exponents being multiplied in the question
Exponets is a math word and have more than one number being multiplied by itself
d + z=d+ z because there are no like terms and the two variables are not being multiplied.
64 ( six to the fourth power) Exponents indicate the number of times that the base (6 in this case) is multiplied by itself. In this example, it's being multiplied four times, so we use the exponent 4.
That would be 8 with an exponent of 4.
The laws of exponents work the same with rational exponents, the difference being they use fractions not integers.
Exponents are shorthand for repeated multiplication of the same thing by itself. For instance, the shorthand for multiplying three copies of the number 5 is shown on the right-hand side of the "equals" sign in (5)(5)(5) = 53. The "exponent", being 3 in this example, stands for however many times the value is being multiplied. The thing that's being multiplied, being 5 in this example, is called the "base".
Independent Variables.
The result is called the product. Multipliers and the numbers being multiplied.
Constants stays the same independent variables is the variable that is being manipulated
Independent variables
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