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Exponent Activity

The document discusses exponents and operations involving variables with exponents. It explains that when multiplying the same bases, you multiply the exponents. When dividing the same bases, the answer is always one. When raising a base with an exponent to another exponent, you keep the base and multiply the exponents.

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Exponent Activity

The document discusses exponents and operations involving variables with exponents. It explains that when multiplying the same bases, you multiply the exponents. When dividing the same bases, the answer is always one. When raising a base with an exponent to another exponent, you keep the base and multiply the exponents.

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Exponent Activity

Monday, October 08, 2012 10:43 AM

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What is a base? A base is the power that indicates the power being multiplied
What is a power? A power tells how many factors in the repeated multiplication.

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What does a base and power (exponent) tell you to do? A base tells us what to multiply the power by and the power tells us what to multiply the base by.

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What is a power a shortcut to? A power is a shortcut to writing out a long multiplication equation.

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How could you use geometry to describe squaring or cubing a number? You could use geometry to describe squaring or cubing a number because squaring as the power gets the larger, so does the area or dimension of the shape

A base is the power that indicates the power being multiplied and a power tells how many factors in the repeated multiplication. A base tells us what to multiply the power by and the power tells us what to multiply the base by. A power is a shortcut to writing out a long multiplication equation. You could use geometry to describe squaring or cubing a number because squaring as the power gets the larger, so does the area or dimension of the shape

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Part 3: Powers of Variables

Use constants to help you think through what happens with variables in the following list of questions. 1. What do you get when you add x by x? 2x

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What do you get when you subtract x by x? 0

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What do you get when you multiply x by x?

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What do you get when you divide x by x?

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What do you get when you multiply x by x by x?

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What about x by x by x by x by x?

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What do you get when you multiply x^2 by x?

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What about x^2 by x^3?

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What about x^2 by x^3?

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What about x^4 by x^6?

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Come up with a rule that explains what happens when you multiply same bases.

When multiplying bases, you are multiplying itself by itself however many times the exponent calls for.
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What do you get when you divide x by x?

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What do you get when you multiply x^2 by x?

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What about x^4 by x^2?

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What do you get when you divide x^5 by x^3?

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What about x^6 by x?

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Come up with a rule that explains what happens when you divide same bases. When dividing same bases, the answer will always be one because whenever a number goes into itself there's nothing left but one. What do you get when you square x^3?

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What do you get when you square x^4?

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What do you get when you cube x^2?

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What do you get when you raise x^3 to the fourth power?

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What do you get when you raise x^2 to the fifth power?

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Come up with a rule that explains what happens when you raise a base with an exponent by an exponent.
When raising a base with an exponent by an exponent you keep the base the same but multiply the two exponents.

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