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why do whole numbers raised to an exponent get greater while fractions raised to an exponent gets smaller

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whole numbers are greter than 1
remember that anything times 1 is the same

fraction means a part of
therfor a fraction of a fraction is a smaller part of a small part so it makes it smaller
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