The distributive property of exponents over multiplication says that when you have multiple factors raised to an exponent, the exponent can be distributed to each of the factors individually.
This property can also be applied to division and it can be used in reverse to multiply or divide powers with the same exponent.
Most math teachers call the distributive property of exponents some variation of…
I call it the “distributive property of exponents over multiplication” because the relationship between exponents and multiplication is very similar to the relationship between multiplication and addition.
The relationship between multiplication and addition is called the “distributive property of multiplication over addition” and you can read more about it here.
