document.write( "Question 876666: rewrite expression with positive exponents 1/(3x^-3) \n" ); document.write( "
Algebra.Com's Answer #528937 by Edwin McCravy(20054)\"\" \"About 
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\"1%2F%283x%5E%28-3%29%29\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "The rule for making a negative exponent positive\r\n" );
document.write( "if it is a factor of either the numerator of the denominator:\r\n" );
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document.write( "1.  If the base with a negative exponent is a factor of the\r\n" );
document.write( "NUMERATOR, move the base and exponent as a factor of the\r\n" );
document.write( "DENOMINATOR and change the sign of the exponent to positive.\r\n" );
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document.write( "2.  If the base with a negative exponent is a factor of the\r\n" );
document.write( "DENOMINATOR, move the base and exponent as a factor of the\r\n" );
document.write( "NUMERATOR and change the sign of the exponent to positive.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Yours is case 2, so bring the factor \"x%5E%28-3%29\" from the\r\n" );
document.write( "DENOMINATOR to the NUMERATOR and change the exponent \"-3\"\r\n" );
document.write( "to \"3\", like this:\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"1x%5E3%2F3%29\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then you can dispense with the 1:\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"x%5E3%2F3%29\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "[Note: Be sure not to bring the 3 to the numerator with the\r\n" );
document.write( "x³ because the 3 already has an understood positive exponent\r\n" );
document.write( "1, since 3 = 31.] \r\n" );
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