Answer:
... you add the exponents
Step-by-step explanation:
An exponent is a way of showing repeated multiplication. For example, ...
x^2 means x·x
and
x^3 means x·x·x
If we multiply these two expressions together, we get ...
(x^2)·(x^3) = (x·x)·(x·x·x) = x·x·x·x·x
This is a product in which x appears as a factor 5 times, so we can write it using an exponent as ...
x·x·x·x·x = x^5
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That is, when we multiply the expressions, we add the numbers of times the factor appears in the product:
2 + 3 = 5
x^2 · x^3 = x^(2+3) = x^5
