Practice: Organizing InformationComplete the chart to describe the exponents laws and rules.
1 answer:
Following the generalized form that you wrote, you know that a negative exponent sends its base to the denominator (or numerator if it's in the denominator already). Or to put it formally as you wrote it, for any nonzero real number a and natural number n, <span>the negative rule of exponents states that </span>
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Given:
The table of values for the function f(x).
To find:
The values and
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Solution:
From the given table, it is clear that the function f(x) is defined as:
We know that if (a,b) is in the function f(x), then (b,a) must be in the function . So, the inverse function is defined as:
And,
...(i)
Using (i), we get
Now,
Therefore, the required values are and
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