Even though (-4) ^0 and -4 ^0 look quite similar, they are completely different. Give the answer to each of the two expressions, and explain why the answers are different.
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1. the period you have math
2. the solution to (-4) ^0
3. the solution to -4 ^0
4. the explanation telling why they are different. How do you arrive at the correct answer for each of the two expressions? Make sure that your explanation is thorough while trying to keep it relatively brief.
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1 comment:
The solution should look something like this:
(-4)^0 = 1
-4^0 = -1
In the first example, the entire number (-4) is being raised to the power of zero - and we know that any number to the power of 0 equals 1.
Because there are no parentheses in the second example, it is saying "the opposite of 4 to the power of 0." We know that 4 to the power of 0 equals 1, so the opposite of that would be -1.
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