How do you find the power of a product?

Lets start with a product of two numbers x and y

the product is xy.  All numbers and variables have an exponent.  If it is not there, you may assume it to be 1.

So xy is also

so when you raise a product to a power, you multiply the exponents.

is really xy · xy · xy .  then x·x·x·y·y·y or

Similarly  is
and is which is


(hope that worked:)