Name ___________________________________________________ Date ________________ Hour ________ Standard G: Exponents Lesson 1 Product & Quotient Rules Warm-Up: Without the use of a calculator, evaluate the following expression given the value for each variable in the expression. Your answer must be as simplified as possible. √ 8 5 7 7 6 given = 4, = 6, = 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is an exponent? Name the parts of an exponential expression: Parentheses play a huge role in exponential expressions. If there are no parentheses in the expression, you can only assume that an exponent applies to ___________________________________________. If there are parentheses in the expression, you can assume that the exponent applies to _________________________________________________. For example, in 2 3 , to which base(s) does the exponent “3” apply? In 2(6) 4 , to which base(s) does the exponent “4” apply? When simplifying exponential expressions, you must always combine any bases that are the same down to one base with a new exponent; this includes bases which are numbers. To finish simplifying, any number bases must be expanded (for example, 2 3 must be written as 8).