Question

Simplify the following expression 3°?​

Answer 1

Answer: 1

Anything to the 0 power is 1

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

1

Step-by-step explanation:

As you may already know, the number (the base) to the power (the exponent) is how many times you multiply the base. For instance:

3² = 3 * 3

3³ = 3 * 3 * 3

However, anything to the zeroth power is 1.

Why?

Well, for those above examples, take 3², you can also write it as:

3² = 1 * 3 * 3

It's just 1 times how many of that number. In 3 squared, there are twos 3's, not to be confused with 3 * 2.

In 3 to the zeroth power, there are zero 3's:

3° = 1

Now it has only the one.

This is just the way I was taught to think about it, but I'm sure there's a better explanation than mine.