Algebra I For Dummies
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Exponents are shorthand for repeated multiplication. The rules for performing operations involving exponents allow you to change multiplication and division expressions with the same base into something simpler to work with. Remember that in xa, the x is the base and the a is the exponent.

Assume x ≠ 0:

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