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What is the value or 8 to the negative 1st power

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The answer is 1/8. Hope this helps you
User Suyog Shimpi
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hi <3

anything to a negative power of -1 is equal to the reciprocal (1 over the number)

so in this case it would be equal to : 1/8^1

anything to the power of 1 is just itself so your final answer is:

1/8

hope this helps :)

User Pablo Recalde
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