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Attribution

Some of the content of this guide was modeled after a guide originally created by the Openstax and has been adapted for the GPRC Learning Commons in September 2020. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons BY 4.0 International License .

Laws of Exponents 

Definitions: If m and n are positive integers, then:

Combining: 

Distributing:

Example (1): Simplify.
 
Example (2): Simplify.

Example (3): Simplify.