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Exponents
Exponents
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Part of video series Exponents
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An introduction to exponents and how to evaluate expressions with exponents.
- What is an exponent?
- What does 3^4 mean and what does it equal?
- What does 2^3 equal?
- How do you evaluate (-2)^4?
- How is (-2)^4 different from -2^4?
- Why does -2^4 equal -16?
- How do you raise fractions to exponents?
- What does (3/2)^3 equal?
- How do you evaluate -(1/2)^2?
- How do you raise decimals to exponents?
- What does (0.3)^2 equal?
This is a great review of exponents and how to compute expressions with exponents. Several example problems are shown, and the concept of what an exponent means is explained.
