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Lesson: Challenging Arithmetic - 12

Exponents or Powers

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An exponent is just shorthand way to express multiplication. An exponent tells you how many times to multiply a number by itself. Exponents are widely used in quantitative section of all tests.

Video Exponents and Powers

Exponents can also be negative. A number raised to a negative exponent is the reciprocal of that number raised to a positive exponent (i.e., one over that number). For instance:

; and so on.

These numbers can come in interesting combinations, too:

The small number in the corner is the exponent. The regular-sized number is the base.

Exponents are also called powers.

Video - Negative Exponents

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