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 June 27th, 2013, 04:14 PM #1 Senior Member   Joined: Apr 2013 From: Ramallah, Palestine Posts: 349 Thanks: 0 Laws of Exponents. Stuck! Use the Law of Exponents to rewrite and simplify the expression. (x^2n) * (x^3n-1) $----------$ (x^n+2) *NOTE Everything that follows after the x's are meant to be in the exponent position, I couldn't figure out how to get all of them up there. I could only get one successfully because if I tried to ^ again in Latex it would look like x^2^n which looks like 2 is to the nth power. Anyways, please help. I am stuck. Am I missing a law I need to be using? Thanks, Sham
 June 27th, 2013, 05:06 PM #2 Global Moderator     Joined: Oct 2008 From: London, Ontario, Canada - The Forest City Posts: 7,976 Thanks: 1158 Math Focus: Elementary mathematics and beyond Re: Laws of Exponents. Stuck! Use {} around the exponent (in latex). In text, use (),[], etc. When multiplying powers with the same base, add the exponents. When dividing powers with the same base, subtract the exponents. $\frac{x^{2n}\,\cdot\,x^{3n-1}}{x^{n+2}}\,=\,x^{4n-3}$
 June 30th, 2013, 04:18 PM #3 Senior Member   Joined: Apr 2013 From: Ramallah, Palestine Posts: 349 Thanks: 0 Re: Laws of Exponents. Stuck! awesome explanation! I put that in my notes. Thanks so much greg. -Sham
 June 30th, 2013, 06:02 PM #4 Global Moderator     Joined: Oct 2008 From: London, Ontario, Canada - The Forest City Posts: 7,976 Thanks: 1158 Math Focus: Elementary mathematics and beyond Re: Laws of Exponents. Stuck! $x^2\,\cdot\,x^3\,=\,x\,\cdot\,x\,\cdot\,x\,\cdot\, x\,\cdot\,x\,=\,x^5$ Better?

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