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State the product law of exponents.

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State the product law of exponents.

If is any real number and , are positive integers, then

By definition, we have

(factor) ( factor)

to factors

Thus the exponent "product rule" tells us that, when multiplying two powers that have the same base, we can add the exponents.


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