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Anything to the power of a negative number is equal to one divided that "anything" raised to the positive value of the exponent. For example:
a-b = 1/ ab
So you can think of this by expressing the number as a fraction. Consider, what is 0.1 as a fraction? The answer is 1/10. This means that when expressed as an exponent, it would be 10-1.
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What do you do when multiplying a positive exponent by a negative exponent?
Example: (4x)-2 The answer to this would be 1/ 16x2. Multiply it out as if the negative exponent was not there ((4x)2), then that will be the denominator of the fraction. The numerator is one.
How do you identify the base and exponent in the expression negative eight to the fifteenth power?
negative 8 would be the base and the 15 would be the exponent
What happens if your number has a negative exponent?
That number becomes an exponent. For example, 5 to the -2 power is 1/25
Why do you have negative exponents?
Negative exponents are used to represent 1 divided by an a base to a specific exponent.
How do you make a negative exponent positive?
You can do it if you replace the base by its reciprocal.
