Question

What does the product rule of exponents say?

Answer 1

this says that to multiply two exponents with the same base, you keep the base and add the powers

Answer 2

basically, when multiplying numbers or placeholders with the same base, just add the exponents

or


`(x^m)(x^n)=x^(m+n)`
just add the exponents, ONLY IF THE BASE IS THE SAME
like
2^3 times 2^4=2^(3+4)
but you can't do
2^4 times 4^2
but you can make it into
2^4 times 2^4=2^8


add exponents