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Describe circumstances where you would add exponents and when you would multiply exponents.

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if you are multiplying factors and the bases are the same, you add the exponents. if you are raising an expression to a power, you multiply the exponents.

a^m * a^n = a^m+n and (a^m)^n =a^m*n

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