1. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved Sec 6.1 - 1 6.1 Integer Exponents and Scientific Notation

2. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Sec 6.1 - 2 6.1 Integer Exponents and Scientific Notation Use the product rule for exponents. The products of exponential expressions with the same base are found by adding exponents.

3. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Sec 6.1 - 3 6.1 Integer Exponents and Scientific Notation Use the product rule for exponents.

4. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Sec 6.1 - 4 6.1 Integer Exponents and Scientific Notation Define 0 and negative exponents.

5. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Sec 6.1 - 5 6.1 Integer Exponents and Scientific Notation Negative Exponents

6. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Sec 6.1 - 6 6.1 Integer Exponents and Scientific Notation Special Rules for Negative Exponents

7. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Sec 6.1 - 7 6.1 Integer Exponents and Scientific Notation Use the quotient rule for exponents.

8. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Sec 6.1 - 8 6.1 Integer Exponents and Scientific Notation Use the power rule for exponents.

9. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Sec 6.1 - 9 6.1 Integer Exponents and Scientific Notation Use the power rule for exponents.

10. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Sec 6.1 - 10 6.1 Integer Exponents and Scientific Notation More Special Rules for Negative Exponents

11. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Sec 6.1 - 11 6.1 Integer Exponents and Scientific Notation Rules for Exponents Summarized

12. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Sec 6.1 - 12 6.1 Integer Exponents and Scientific Notation Using the Definitions and Rules for Exponents Note: There is often more than one way to simplify expressions as illustrated in the following expressions.

13. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Sec 6.1 - 13 6.1 Integer Exponents and Scientific Notation Converting to Scientific Notation To write numbers in scientific notation, we use the following steps. If the number is negative, use the steps above and then label your results as a negative number.