Monday, February 21, 2022

Zero and Negative Exponents

Topics for Today:

We began a discussion about powers, bases and exponents today, and focused on bases with a zero exponent as well as negative exponents.


Summary

  • Any non-zero number raised to the zero power equals one!
  • Negative exponents are fractions.  If a factor is moved up or down in a fraction, the sign of the exponent is changed.  


Sections Covered in Textbook:

8-1: Zero and Negative Exponents (pages 394-399)


Resources & Tutorials:

1) What do you do with a zero exponent? 
2) What do you do with a negative exponent?


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