Everything You Need to Know About Exponents (18 new tricks!)

Ideal for anyone studying the GRE or GMAT or any exam in which exponents / powers / indices are tested. Starts at beginner level all the way up to expert level.

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0:00 Introduction
2:53 Exponents To Memorise
7:21 Negative Numbers
11:23 Powers of Zero/One
13:11 Essential Exponent Rules
20:21 Negative Exponents
26:42 Exponents and Picking Numbers
33:37 Prime Factorising the Base
42:01 Base Cancellation (Warning)
43:59 Practice Interval
47:48 Joining Exponents (and when not!)
51:24 Exponents with Additions/Subtractions
54:40 Exponent Fractions
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At 50:53, you can actually simplify 3^9 * 2^8 by writing 3^9 as 3 * 3^8, giving 3 * (3^8 * 2^8) = 3 * 6^8. Not sure how useful that actually is, but it could be helpful in really niche problems.

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