Laws of Exponents
What is x⁴ ÷ x²
What is x²?
A lighting technician doubles the number of spotlights each night of rehearsal. If they start with 22 spotlights on Monday, how many spotlights will they have by Wednesday?
What is 16 spotlights?
Simplify: x³ × x²
What is x⁵?
This is the person who writes the script for a play.
What is a playwright?
This is the small number written above and to the right of a base number.
What is the exponent?
What is (a³)²?
What is a6?
A stage crew stacks folding chairs in piles of 33. How many chairs are there in 2 stacks?
What is 54 chairs?
Simplify: 3x² × 4x³
What is 12x⁵?
This word describes the lines spoken by characters in a play.
What is dialogue?
In the expression 2³, this is the number 2.
What is in the base?
What is 54/52 ?
What is 25?
A play starts at 6:45 PM and ends at 9:10 PM. How long is the play?
What is 2 hour and 25 minute?
Simplify: (2x²y) × (5xy³)
What is 10x³y⁴?
This is the area offstage where actors wait before entering.
What is the wings?
This word describes the number of times a base is multiplied by itself.
What is the power?
Which rule can be used to am+n ?
What is Product of Powers Rule?
A theater has 2 spotlight bulbs. Each bulb lasts 3⁴ hours. How many total hours of light can the theater get from both bulbs combined?
What is 162 hours?
Simplify: (3x²y³)²
What is 9x⁴y⁶?
This is a rehearsal without scripts or stopping, usually close to opening night.
What is a run-through?
An exponent of 0 means the value of the expression is always this, as long as the base isn’t 0.
What is 1?
If 19600 can be expressed as 2a x 5b x 7c, where a, b, and c are positive integers, find the value of a + b - c.
What is 4?
A speaker’s volume increases by a factor of 2 every second. If it starts at 1 decibel, what is the volume after 8 seconds?
What is 256 decibels?
Simplify: (6x³y²) ÷ (2xy)
What is 3x²y?
This is the term for the instructions in a script that tell actors where to move or how to deliver a line.
What are stage directions?
This is the process of simplifying expressions with the same base by adding or subtracting exponents.
What is combining like terms (or using the laws of exponents)?