Question

Practice: Organizing Information
Complete the chart to describe the exponents laws and rules.

Answer 1

Following the generalized form that you wrote, you know that a negative exponent sends its base to the denominator (or numerator if it's in the denominator already). Or to put it formally as you wrote it, for any nonzero real number a and natural number n, the negative rule of exponents states that
`a^(-n) = (1)/(a^n)`.

So,
`6^(-2)= (1)/(6^(2)) = (1)/(36)`.