Rules of Negative Exponents

• m⁴
• m⁶
• m¹⁰
• 1/m⁶

Make this negative exponent positive.
9^-3

• 9³

• 1/9^-3

• 1/9³

• 729

(y⁹)^-2

• y¹⁸

• y¹¹

• 1/y¹⁸

• y⁹/2

How would you change this to a positive exponent:
1/x^-3

• 1/x³

• x³

• 3x

• 1/3x

x^-3

• 1/x³

• 1/x^-3

• 3x

• 1/3x

Simplify

• 1/5x³

• 1/x⁵

• -5/x³

• 5/x³

x⁻⁶

• 1 ⁄ x⁶

• x⁶

• -x⁶

• -1 ⁄ x⁶

• m⁴
• m⁶
• m¹⁰
• 1/m⁶

• 1/96a¹⁰b⁸
• -4a^-10b^-2/24b⁶
• a^-10/6b⁸
• 1/6a¹⁰b⁸