Laws of Exponents Vocabulary

When multiplying items that have the same base, keep the base and add the exponents

• Product Property
• Quotient Property
• Power of Products Property
• Power Property

When dividing items that have the same base, keep the base and subtract the exponents

• Quotient Property
• Power of Quotients Property
• Exponents
• Index

When you see a power raised to another power, keep the base and multiply the exponents

• Power Property
• Power of Products Property
• Power of Quotients Property
• Exponent

To find the power of a product, distribute the exponent on the outside of the parenthesis

• Power of Products Property
• Power Property
• Power of Quotients Property
• Product Property

To find the power of a quotient, distribute the exponent on the outside of the parenthesis

• Power of a Quotient Property
• Quotient Property
• Power Property
• Power of Powers Property

any exponent that can be written as the fraction m/n where the denominator "n" cannot be equal to zero

• Base
• Exponent
• Rational Exponent
• Index

The number that states how many times to multiply the base

• Exponent
• Rational Exponent
• Index
• Radical

The number inside of the radical symbol

• Radicand
• Base
• Index
• Exponent

• Radical Symbol
• Radicand
• Radical Exponent
• Base

The large number that is being multiplied

• Base
• Exponent
• Radicand
• Radical Symbol