How do you express 10^-4 as a positive exponent?

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Ryan K.
Feb 6, 2017

1/10^4

Explanation:

This is one of the fundamental rules of exponents. When given a variable, integer, etc. with a negative exponent, you can instead rewrite it as the inverse of said variable/integer/etc. with a positive exponent.

For a number n raised to the power x, this then can take the form:

n^-x = 1/n^x

Hope this helps!

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