Question

How do you change powers with negative exponents to powers with positive exponents?

Answer 1

\[\frac{x^{-5}}{1} = \frac{1}{x^5}\]

Answer 2

in words please. i know what to do but dont know who to word it???

Answer 3

The proof is
\[ \frac{x^{-5}}{1}\cdot \frac{x^5}{x^5 }=\frac{x^{-5}x^5}{x^5}=\frac{x^0}{x^5}=\frac{1}{x^5}\]

Answer 4

Ok, you could say you multiply the term by its inverse and then divide by the inverse to keep the expression the same....

Answer 5

You end up with 1 divided by the original element's inverse which is what you are doing...