Team Teachers: Guadalupe Armas & K. Irene Gaskey Negative Exponents Team Teachers: Guadalupe Armas & K. Irene Gaskey

Summary And Key Terms In this lesson you will Simplify expressions with negative exponents Key Term Negative Exponent- A negative exponent of a number equals to the reciprocal of positive exponent of the number.

Opposites 102 = 100 10-2 = 1/100

Basically... You still raise the # to the power. The negative just makes it 1 over the #. Ex. 20-2 = 1/400

Let's Practice pg. 307-308 Power Exponent Value 103 3 1000 102 101 100 1/10 1/100 -3

Let's Practice (cont.) Power Exponent Value x3 x * x * x 2 x -1 1/x2 -1 1/x2 x-3

Let's Practice (cont.) Power Exponent Value 23 4 2 -1 1/4 2-3