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NEITHER! Look at 4+8 which you know is 12 4 is 2^2 and 8 is 2^3 2^2+2^3=12 but no power of 2 is equal to 12? So the answer is NEITHER. When you multiply numbers, you add the exponents and when you raise and exponent to a power, you multiply exponents. In the example i gave, you could factor out the smallest power and you have 2^2(1+2)=2^2x3=4x3=12 That is how you do this type of problem. Either raise the numbers to their powers and add them, or factor and add.
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When multiplying a number exponents that are squared do you add or multiply?
If the base numbers or variables are the same, you add the exponents.
When you have two different exponents do you add them or multiply them?
Multiply
How do you multiply exponents?
To multiply exponents you basically add them like so... if it was 7 to the power of 2 and 7 to the power of 6 you just add them together and u would get 7 to the power of 8
When you multiply polynomials what do you do with the exponents?
Add them up providing that the bases are the same.
How do you do order of operations with square roots and exponents?
PEMDAS: parenthesis exponents multiply divide add subtract prentices
