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You can understand this by using one rule of exponents. For integers m,n, and positive integer a a^m/a^n=a^(m-n) So if we look at a^m/a^m which must be 1 since it is something divided by itself, we know from the rule we can also write this as a^(n-n)=a^0 but we just showed that was 1.

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Q: When a positive integer is raised to the power of zero the answer is always one. Why?
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