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Simplifying Multi-Variable Monomial Products in Production Modeling

You are working as an operations analyst assistant at a manufacturing plant. Your team is analyzing a production capacity formula that involves multiplying two resource-scaling rate factors: (23r5s)(\frac{2}{3}r^5s) and (12r6s7)(12r^6s^7), where rr is the raw material input factor and ss is the system stability factor.

To help document this model for the training manual, write a short response where you recall and describe the algebraic rules needed to simplify the product of these two expressions. In your response:

  1. Identify and state the name of the property that allows you to rearrange and group the numerical coefficients together, and group the variables with the same base together.
  2. State the name of the exponent rule/property used to multiply variables with the same base, and write its general algebraic formula.
  3. Show the step-by-step simplification of (23r5s)(12r6s7)(\frac{2}{3}r^5s)(12r^6s^7) using these properties to arrive at the final simplified expression: 8r11s8{}8r^{11}s^8.

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