Scribd
Upload
210 views6 pages

Laws of Indices - Review

Laws of indices can be justified by looking at patterns that emerge when rewriting powers of a term. Anything to the power of 0 is 1, negative powers produce fractions, and fractional powers produce roots. These patterns can be seen when expanding out expressions and collecting like terms, and proving one law can help prove other laws, like using the negative power law to justify the fractional indices law.

Uploaded by

coolcat132
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
210 views6 pages

Laws of Indices - Review

Laws of indices can be justified by looking at patterns that emerge when rewriting powers of a term. Anything to the power of 0 is 1, negative powers produce fractions, and fractional powers produce roots. These patterns can be seen when expanding out expressions and collecting like terms, and proving one law can help prove other laws, like using the negative power law to justify the fractional indices law.

Uploaded by

coolcat132
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 6

Laws of Indices

Why does each law work?


Laws of Indices

Some useful things to remember

Anything to the power 0 is 1

egati!e powers produce fractions


"ractional powers produce roots
Example
#ake the following as an e$ample
%an we now generalise this statement to include m&s and n&s?

'e(write the powers of a


Substitute these e$pressions into the original sum
and total
Show that the answers are the
same
%ould this idea be of any help?
What is happening as you mo!e through the pattern?
)ow could this help you to *ustify some of the laws?

+ther ideas
If you ha!e pro!en a law you may use it to pro!e another
law
)ow could you use this idea to *ustify the fractional
indices law?

You might also like