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Laws of Exponents
Objective:TSW simplify powers.TSW simplify radicals.
TSW develop a vocabulary associated with exponents.
TSW use the laws of exponents to simplify.
Exponents
The lower number is called the base and the upper number is called the exponent.
The exponent tells how many times to multiply the base.
1. Evaluate the following exponential expressions:
A. 42 = 4 x 4 = 16 B. 34 = 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 = 81 C. 23 = D. (-1) =7
Perfect Squares
1² = 1 2² = 4 3² = 9 4² = 16 5² = 25 6² = 36 7² = 49
8² = 64 9² = 81 10² = 100 11² = 121 12² = 144 13² = 169
Square Roots
A square root goes the other direction. 3 squared is 9, so the square root of 9 is 3
3 9
Radicals
- The inverse operation of raising a number to a power.
For Example, if we use 2 as a factor with a power of 4, then we get 16. We can reverse this by finding the fourth root of 16 which is 2.
= 2164
Radicals
In this problem, the 16 is called the radicand, the 4 is the index, and the 2 is the root.
The symbol is known as the radical sign. If the index is not written, then it is understood to be 2.
The entire expression is known as a radical expression or just a radical.
Laws of Exponents
Whenever we have variables which contain exponents and have equal bases, we can do certain mathematical operations to them.
Those operations are called the “Laws of Exponents.”
Negative Exponents
a-n= (
1______
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A nonzero base raised to a negative exponent is the reciprocal of the base raised to the positive exponent.
A nonzero base raised to a negative exponent is the reciprocal of the base raised to the positive exponent.
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