Today we learned about
negative exponents. Yesterday when we discussed zero exponents, we discovered that
if the exponent is decreased, we divide by the base. This pattern continues down from zero into the negatives! So if a base is raised to a negative, it does not give a negative number, but it continues to divide by the base!
Rule:
x -m = 1
x m
for any value x other than zero
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