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Chapter 10 Plan What are your goals for Chapter 10? How can you accomplish each goal? (Write in the steps you will take to succeed.) 1 Be prepared before and during class. • • • • 2 Understand the homework to the point where you could do it without needing any help or hints. • • • 3 Use the P.O.W.E.R. framework to help you improve your memory: What’s Your Memory Style? • • • 4 Write your own goal. • What are your objectives for Chapter 10? How can you accomplish each objective? 1 Know how to use the product rule, power rules, and the quotient rule for exponents. • Learn how to use each rule by itself fi rst. • Product rule • Basic power rule • Power rule for a product • Power rule for quotient • Quotient rule for exponents • Be able to simplify an expression using any combination of the rules. 2 Understand how to work with negative exponents and zero as an exponent. • Know that any nonzero number or variable raised to the 0 power is equal to 1. • Learn the defi nition of a negative exponent, and be able to explain it in your own words. • Know how to write an expression containing negative exponents with positive exponents. 3 Use, write, and evaluate numbers in scientific notation. • Know how to multiply by a positive or negative power of 10, and compare it to using scientifi c notation. • Understand the defi nition of scientifi c notation. • Learn to write any number in scientifi c notation. • Be able to multiply, divide, add, and subtract numbers in scientifi c notation. 4 Know how to add and subtract polynomials. • Learn the basic terminology associated with polynomials. • Understand how to use like terms to add and subtract polynomials. www.mhhe.com/messersmith CHAPTER 10 The Rules of Exponents and Polynomials 767


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