Zeros and Negative Exponents Objective: Students will be able to apply, simplify and solve problems associated with zero and negative exponents.

Zero Exponent Special property What do you think happens when we raise a number to the 0 exponent Answer is always 1

Negative Exponent What does this mean? What does it do? Can we make it positive? We need to make it positive to understand what it does To make it positive you need to move the number, variable or term that is being affected by the exponent to the other side of the fraction bar, this makes it positive

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Homework Pg 370 1 extra problems