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4.2 Negative Exponents

This document is a lesson plan on negative integral exponents. It introduces negative integral exponents and their relationship to positive exponents. Examples are provided to simplify expressions with negative exponents by rewriting them as single powers with positive exponents. Students are given practice problems simplifying expressions with negative exponents and evaluating them. The lesson plan aims to teach students how to simplify expressions with negative integral exponents.

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4.2 Negative Exponents

This document is a lesson plan on negative integral exponents. It introduces negative integral exponents and their relationship to positive exponents. Examples are provided to simplify expressions with negative exponents by rewriting them as single powers with positive exponents. Students are given practice problems simplifying expressions with negative exponents and evaluating them. The lesson plan aims to teach students how to simplify expressions with negative integral exponents.

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Unit

4 Exponential Functions

4.2 Negative Integral Exponents

Date:

Homework: Page 221-223: 4-9{every other}, 11, 13, 16-18




Practice Problems

Learning Objectives/Success Criteria: At the end of this lesson I will be able to:
Simplify expressions with negative integral exponents

Recall: Exponent Laws


When multiplying powers with the same base, add exponents: a m a n = a m+n
When dividing powers with the same base, subtract exponents: a m a n = a m+n

( )

To raise a power to a power, multiply exponents: a m

= a mn

If the exponent is zero, then the value of the power is 1: a0 = 1,a 0


Simplify:

( )( )( )

a. x 2 x5 x 3
e.

12

y

y3

( )( )( )

i. x 2 x5 x 3

( )( )( )

( )( )( )( )

b. y12 y 3 y

a7b8
f. 3 4
a b

g. y12 y 3

j. (2xy)0

k.

c. a7 b8 a3 b4

d.

x5

x 3

( )( )
a7

a7

(a ) ( b )
h.

l. 6x 0

a3b10


Negative Integral Exponents: A negative exponent is the reciprocal of the power with a positive exponent.

Example 1: Simplify.
2
!3$
2
1
2
2 5 5
a. 2 x y

b. 4y



c. 3 4



d. # &
ab
"4%
Example 2. Write each expression as a single power with a positive exponent:

( )

! 2$
a. # &


b. 47 29


c. 34 36



3
" %

Example 3. Simplify then evaluate each expression. Express answers in radical form.
8

a. (52 )3 54

(2) 3
b.
(2) 3
5

2
2

( )

d. 43

2 2 +33
c. 4 2
2 +3

!! $6 $ ! $9
3
4
d. ## & & # &
#" 4 % & " 3 %
"
%


Example 4: Given: b = a3 and c = a7
a) Express as a power of a:




i) b3c 1
ii) b2c
b) Express in the form bmc n , where m and n are integers:
i) a11
ii) a0
iii) a-1
x
m
n
c) Show that if x is any integer, a can always be expressed in the form b c , where m and n are integers.

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