Answer:
Raising something to a negative exponent is just taking the reciprocal of the amount.
Step-by-step explanation:
Let's assume that you wanted to know what 
is.
To find it, you would take the reciprocal of the x amount. So becomes 
.
This works because of the nature of exponents. Exponents represent the number of times you are multiplying a value by itself. So 
would be equal to a · a · a. To increase the exponent, you increase the number of times the value is multiplied by itself: To increase to 
, you would have to multiply a with two more times (a · a · a · a · a). To decrease the exponent, you must divide the value by itself. So to decrease to 
, you would have to divide by a 3 times.
If the exponent is 0, the value is equal to 1. But you can still decrease the exponent into negative numbers. You just divide 1 by a the desired amount of times: 
means that you are dividing 1 by a 3 times.
Hope this helps.
Ok so she has to pay 30 percent more of the 20 dollars she already has to pay because of the tax and then the tip so you multiply 20 by .30 which is six then you add that to 20 which is 26
This is a classic example of Scientific Notation.
5.3 x 10^5 actually equals 530,000
3.8 x 10^4 actually equals 38,000
Since it is asking for the sum of the numbers you are adding.
Your new equation look like this:
530,000 + 38,000
= 568,000
now all you have to do is count the decimal points. You start from the end zero and count the spaces in between until you get to the tenths place. (Right behind the first number) There are 5
So your answer will be:
B. 5.68 x 10^5.
Let the original number be x
X^2 + 11 = 36
Subtract 11
X^2 = 25
Square root both
X = 5
Solution: her original number is 5
You can take it apart. There are a top and bottom (both the same) right triangle. So you can find the area of that by multiplying 8*6 and divide by two. Then multiply by two because there are 2 triangles.
You are left with three rectangular sides: One 10x10, one 10x6, and one 10x8.
So your whole equation looks like this: A = 2[(8*6)/2]+(10*10)+(10*6)+(10*8)
