Question

Acellus

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

Answer 1

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?