Index Laws

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Index Laws
Objectives B Grade Use Index Laws for positive
and negative powers
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Index Laws
Use the index laws to calculate
x-2
x(2-4)

What does this mean?
In full this looks like
1 x2

Simplify
So
This result can be generalised for all negative
indices
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Index Laws
Other examples
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Index Laws
1 105
1 82
1 xm
1 53
t -n
3-2
10-3
5-1
3y-1
7x-2
10p-2
8m-5
25
24
2-4
2-1
-23
103
10-1
10-2
106