How to Work with Negative Exponents
What do negative exponents mean?
By
Jason Marshall, PhD
Jason Marshall, PhD
February 1, 2012
2 minute read
At the end of the latest Math Dude article, What Are Negative Exponents, I gave 3 problems to help you practice solving problems that have negative exponents. To solve these problems, you need to know a few things. First, as we learned in How to Multiply Numbers with Exponents, you can multiply two numbers with exponents by adding the exponents—so long as the bases are the same. In other words:
2m ∗ 2n = 2m+n
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