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How are negative exponents and positive exponents related ?

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If it's a negative exponent for example -6 the answer would be 1/x^-6. So if x is 10. Then 10^-6 is equal to 1/10^6 (One over ten to the power of 6 or One divided by 10 to the power six)
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Negative or positive exponents are related by fractions.

For example, if we have a number that is raised to a negative exponent, we can write the number as the quotient between 1 and the same number raised to a positive exponent.

We have then:


a^(-b) = (1)/(a^b)

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negative exponents and positive exponents are related by fractions:


a^(-b) = (1)/(a^b)

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