1. 7.1 Integers Exponents

2. California
Standards
2.0 Students understand and use such operations as taking the opposite, finding the reciprocal, taking a root, and raising to a fractional power. They understand and use the rules of exponents.

3. x
Remember!
Exponent 4
Base
2–4 is read “2 to the negative fourth power.”
Reading Math

5. Zero and Negative Exponents
Simplify.
A. 4–3
B. 70
7º = 1
C. (–5)–4
D. –5–4

6. Practice
Simplify.
a. 10–4
b. (–2)–4
c. (–2)–5
d. –2–5

7. Evaluate the expression for the given values of the variables.
for a = –2 and b = 6 2

8. Evaluating Expressions with Zero and Negative Exponents
Evaluate the expression for the given values of the variables.
–2a0b-4 for a = 5 and b = –3

9. Simplifying Expressions with Zero and Negative Numbers
A. 7w–4

10. Practice 1
2. 2r0m–3 3 4

11. Lesson Quiz: Part I
Simplify.
1. 2–6
2. (–3)–3
3. 60
5. 4y–5 6. 1 7.
4. –112
–121

12. Lesson Quiz: Part II
Evaluate each expression for the given value(s) of the variables(s). 6.
x–4 for x =10 7.
for a = 6 and b = 3
Simplify.
8. 4y–5 9.
–3y6
10.