A navigable guide to the laws of exponents

1. Laws of
Exponents
Copyright 2008 PresentationFx.com | Redistribution Prohibited | Image © 2008 Thomas Brian | This text section may be deleted for presentation .

2. Menu
• Product Rule • Negative Exponent
• Quotient Rule • Negative exponent
• Power Rule in the denominator
• Power of a • Negative exponent
Product on a Quotient
• Power of a • Moving exponents
Quotient across the fraction
• Exponent of bar
Zero

3. Product Rule
m n m n
a a a

4. Quotient Rule
m
a m n
a
n
a

5. Power Rule
m n mn
a a

6. Power of a Product
m m m
ab a b

7. Power of a Quotient
n n
a a
n
b b

8. Exponent of Zero
0
a 1

9. Negative Exponent
n 1
a n
a

10. Negative exponent
in the denominator
1 n
n
a
a

11. Negative exponent
on a quotient
n n
a b
b a

12. Moving exponents
across a fraction bar
n m
a b
m n
b a