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Acellus

Change the negative exponent
to a positive exponent.
11-8
=
1
[?]0

User Aleskva
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A negative exponent means that factor is on the wrong side of the fraction.

For example,
5^(-11) can be written as
(5^(-11))/(1) and to get rid of that negative exponent, the
5^(-11) gets moved to the bottom and the exponent becomes positive.


5^(-11) = (1)/(5^(11))

And if the exponent is negative in the bottom, then you move that factor to the top:


(1)/(y^(-7)) = (y^7)/(1) and we just write that as
y^7, since the "over 1" isn't needed.

The formatting of your question leaves me guessing a bit, but I think your original expression was
11^(-8). Based on what we just talked about above, how would you rewrite that with a positive exponent?

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