This week in math 10 we learned about integral exponents (negative exponents) and how to get rid of them.
To get rid of negative exponents you need to take the base and flip it.
Example: Whatever your variable or base is, it on it’s own is equal to itself over 1. You just don’t write it as such. So when you flip it, you take whatever is in the numerator, and move it to the denominator, or the other way around. This switch makes the exponent positive.
This same principle of moving a base with an integral exponent to the other position applies to solving other expressions as well. This includes expressions where there are bases/exponents in both the numerator and denominator.
Example: Using the same principle of moving a base with a negative exponent to the other position, we move our negative exponent from the numerator to the denominator, changing the negative to a positive, and then evaluating as you would a normal expression.
