Adding Subtracting Like Bases With Exponents

When Adding or Subtracting terms with like bases:

• Combine like terms.

• Add the exponents

• Subtract the exponents

• Multiply the Exponents

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Adding/Subtracting

• 1¹⁰
• 1²⁶
• z¹⁰
• z²⁶

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Dividing

Find the sum of 16y² and -5y².

• -11y²

• 21y²

• 11y²

• 16y² - 5y²

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Adding/Subtracting

10m²n + 7mn² - m²n

• 9m²n + 7mn²

• 16m²n

• 17m²n - mn²

• No change

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Adding/Subtracting

• 7²
• 7³
• 7⁸
• 7⁶

• add

• subtract

• multiply

• divide

When you ______ two terms with the same BASE, you ADD the exponents.

• Multiply

• Add

• Subtract

• Divide

When dividing powers with the same base, you _______________ the exponents.

• Add

• Subtract

• Multiply

• Divide

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Dividing

When Multiplying terms:

• Subtract the exponents and divide the coefficients

• Add the exponents

  and Multiply the Coefficients

• Multiply the exponents and the coefficients

• Divide the exponents and subtract the coefficients

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Multiplying

According to exponent rules, when we multiply expressions with same bases we _______ the exponents.

• add

• subtract

• multiply

• divide