Exponents

Summary

4p5 is a short way of writing 4 × p × p × p × p × p.

the 4 is called the coefficient , the p is called the base or variable and the 5 is called the index, power or exponent.

Key Skills

  • write expressions in index form
  • simplify algebraic expressions involving indices.

Vocabulary

indicesindexcoefficientbasevariablepowerexponent, pronumeral