Negative Powers

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Negative Powers - How to find (with examples) - Teachoo - The Other Si - The Other Side of Powers

part 2 - Negative Powers - The Other Side of Powers - Chapter 2 Class 8 - Power Play (Ganita Prakash) - Class 8 (Ganita Prakash & Old NCERT)

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Negative Powers Now, we saw that 24 Γ· 23 = 2^4/2^3 = 𝟐^(πŸ’βˆ’πŸ‘) But what if we have 24 Γ· 210? 24 Γ· 210 = 2^4/2^10 = 2^(4βˆ’10) = 𝟐^(βˆ’πŸ•) What does this negative power mean? Let’s try to find out Now, 24 Γ· 210 = 2^4/2^10 = (2 Γ— 2 Γ— 2 Γ— 2)/(2 Γ— 2 Γ— 2 Γ— 2 Γ— 2 Γ— 2 Γ— 2 Γ— 2 Γ— 2 Γ— 2) = 1/(2 Γ— 2 Γ— 2 Γ— 2 Γ— 2 Γ— 2) = 𝟏/𝟐^πŸ” Thus, 𝟐^(βˆ’πŸ”) = 𝟏/𝟐^πŸ” Similarly, we can write 𝒂^(βˆ’π’)=𝟏/𝒂^𝒏 Where a β‰  0

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