Power Rule
Below is the formula to power rule:formula
What this rule is saying is we are taking the power of the term, multilying it by that number, n, then decreasing that power by 1.
For example,
image2In this case the power of the term x is 6. We are taking 6 and then multiplying it to the term. We are then decreasing it's original power of 6 by 1, which leads to 5. Hence we get that answer.
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