Lesson: Laws of Exponents over the Real Numbers Mathematics • Second Year of Preparatory School

Students will be able to

• understand and use the laws of exponents over the Real numbers:
  • if and , then ,
  • if and where , then ,
  • if and , then ,
  • if and , then ,
  • if and , then ,
• apply the laws of exponents to expressions with more than two terms,
• use the laws of exponents to simplify exponential expressions involving real numbers,
• use the laws of exponents to evaluate algebraic expressions,
• solve exponential equations using the rules above.