1. Negative Exponents
Section 3.4

2. Negative Exponents
What are they?
A negative exponent indicates a reciprocal.
And similarly
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3. Remember Rules of Exponents
In Test 1 section 1.10 we talked about
rules of exponents. You may want to
revisit the Power Point slides from
section 1.10.
You may want to re-watch the videos
from that section as well.

4. Homework Slide 2

5. Homework Slide 3

6. Homework Slide 4

7. Homework
 Exercises page 242
 #1, 9, 10, 15, 17, 19, 27, 29, 41, 44,
45, 46, 51, 57, 58, 66, 67
 No My Math Lab tonight!