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Monday, October 08, 2012 9:56 AM

What is a base? A base is a number that indicates the factor being multiplied, or in other words it is the bottom number. r What is a power?

A power is the number that shows the number of times the base is multiplied by itself.
What does a base and a power tell you to do? A base and a power tell you to multiply What is a power a shortcut to? Writing out the numbers over and over again

How could you use geometry to describe squaring or cubing a number?

You could draw a square with the total number of cubes in it. If it is 1, it is 1 dimensional. If it is 2 it is 2 dimensional. If it is 3 it is 3 dimensional, and the same goes for all of the other numbers for 3 and above.

Write a Paragraph explaining what you have learned I have learned how you can use geometry to solve problems with exponents, and how you can use units of measurement also to measure the amount of exponents.

Base 2

Exponent 4

Meaning

Value

2x2x2x2 2x2x2

16 8

2x2
2 2

2
2 1

0
2

-2
2 -1

-2

-2 x -2
2
-2

-4

-2 x -2 x -2
2 -3

-8

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-3

-2 x -2 x -2 x -2
2 -4

-16

Use constants to help you think through what happens with variables in the following list of questions. 1. What do you get when you add x by x?

2. What do you get when you subtract x by x?

3. What do you get when you multiply x by x?

4. What do you get when you divide x by x?

5. What do you get when you multiply x by x by x?

6. What about x by x by x by x by x?

7. What do you get when you multiply x^2 by x?

8. What about x^2 by x^3?

9. What about x^4 by x^6?

10. Come up with a rule that explains what happens when you multiply same bases.

11. What do you get when you divide x by x?

12. What do you get when you multiply x^2 by x?

13. What about x^4 by x^2?

14. What do you get when you divide x^5 by x^3?

15. What about x^6 by x?

16. Come up with a rule that explains what happens when you divide same bases.

17. What do you get when you square x^3?

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18. What do you get when you square x^4?

19. What do you get when you cube x^2?

20. What do you get when you raise x^3 to the fourth power?

21. What do you get when you raise x^2 to the fifth power?

22. Come up with a rule that explains what happens when you raise a base with an exponent by an exponent.

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