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5.04 Zero and negative exponents

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Simplify the following, giving your answer with a positive exponent: $\frac{12x^3}{4x^7}$12x34x7

Easy
< 1min

Simplify the following expression, leaving your answer in positive exponential form.

$\left(5^2\right)^{-p}$(52)p

Easy
1min

Simplify the following, giving your answer with a positive exponent: $\frac{9x^3}{3x^{-4}}$9x33x4

Easy
< 1min

Simplify $\frac{5c^3\left(7^0\right)}{3c^5}$5c3(70)3c5, giving your answer with positive exponents.

Easy
1min
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Outcomes

A.EO.3

The student will derive and apply the laws of exponents.

A.EO.3a

Derive the laws of exponents through explorations of patterns, to include products, quotients, and powers of bases.

A.EO.3b

Simplify multivariable expressions and ratios of monomial expressions in which the exponents are integers, using the laws of exponents.

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