Exponents can be very difficult. This is an example, 5^2 power the times you multiply is the exponent, which is 2 so you would do 5*5 to get 25< easy right? well it gets harder lets say that its a negative number for the exponent 5^-2 all you would do is make it into a fraction( 1/ )then you would do it like normal exponents and get 25 you then put it in like this( 1/25 ) that is probably the hardest. There is two more things if the number is one 1^49 the it would still be one because it would be multiplying 1 49 times. also if the exponent is 0,  5^0 the answer would be 1 every time its a 0 there the answer is 1 always. That’s it I hope it helps you out!