Question

Jamie is working on simplifying a problem with negative exponets and got the answer 1/4³. What might Jamie's original expression have been? In other words, work backwards and rewrite this expression with a negative exponet​

Answer 1

Your answer would be 4^-3.

Explanation:

So, a negative exponent by definition, is writing out 1/x^y. Where x is the number and y is the negative exponent.

In this case, 4 would be the number and -3 would be the negative exponent.

So we're going from 1/x^y to x^-y in order to solve this. Therefore, this is something where the numbers can just be plugged in.

1/x^y ---> x^-y

1/4^3 ---> 4^-3

Your answer would be 4^-3.