1. Lesson 8.1 Apply Exponent Properties Involving Products After today’s lesson, you should be able to use properties of exponents involving products to simplify expressions. (CA 2.0)

2. Powers A power is an expression that represents repeated multiplication of the same factor.

3. Writing a Power A power can be written in a form using a base and an exponent.

4. Examples:

7. Multiplying powers with the same base

9. Product of Powers Property

10. Examples: Simplify the expression. Write your answer using exponents.

13. Finding a power of a power

15. Power of a Power Property

16. Examples: Simplify the expression. Write your answer using exponents.

20. Finding a power of a product

22. Power of a Product Property

23. Example: Simplify the expression. Write your answers using exponents.

26. Example: Simplify the expression. Write your answer using exponents.

27. Combining methods: Examples: Simplify the expression.