Read the reteaching notes to review the rules for simplifying negative exponents and for the division property of exponents .

You are done simplifying an exponential expression when all of the following are true:

1. All of the exponents are positive.

2. The is only one of each type of variable in the final answer. (Only one x, one y , one z etc.)

3. The coefficient is reduced to lowest terms.

4. The expression does not contain any parentheses.