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Explaining Exponent Rules in Inventory Management

Imagine you are a shift supervisor at a distribution center training a new employee on how to simplify inventory calculations. The employee is confused about why a formula like $10^2 \cdot 10^3 results in $10^5 rather than $10^6$.

State the Product Property for Exponents and provide a brief explanation of the logic behind it. In your explanation, use the definition of repeated multiplication to show why we add the exponents rather than multiplying them when the bases are the same.

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