Week 3 – integral exponents

this week we worked on exponent laws and using exponent laws to define negative exponents. We learned how to take whole exponents that are negative and turn them into positive fractions where the numerator is 1 and the denominator is the base from the original expression to the power of the same exponent but in positive form.

Take for example 10 to the power of -7, to turn this negative exponent to a positive exponent you have to create a fraction, for the fraction you take 10 as the denominator and 1 as the numerator and by simply putting the negative exponent in the  denominator it becomes positive thus creating 1/10 to the power of 7.

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