Multiplying Monomials

Before you begin reading this lesson on Multiplying Monomials, please make sure that you've read the lesson on laws of exponents and monomials.

These two lessons will definitely be needed in order to understand how to multiply monomials!

When you multiply monomials, you will need to perform two steps:

Let's look at a few examples.

Each line of these examples shows a different step. I broke it down step by step for you to see the exact process. You will be able to do alot of this work mentally, which I will show you later on. I wanted you to understand each step, that's why these explanations are so long!

Example 1

Example 2

One more example, but this time I'm not going to show each individual step. As you master this skill, this is the way in which you will multiply monomials! It's actually pretty quick!

Example 3

Are you ready to practice a few problems on your own?

Practice Problems

Answer Key

The answer key is very colorful. Each variable or constant is a different color so that you can see which terms were multiplied. Only terms that are the same color were multiplied together!

Great Job! Now you are ready to start dividing monomials!