can someone please tell me if this is right or this simple really? the question is to express using a positive exponent. m^-6 so do you really just change it to m^6 so that it is positive? Or how do you go about that?
m^-6 = 1/m^6
is how you would do it, without changing the value of the number represented.
where does the 1 come in?
anything to a negative power is the inverse, or one over, the same thing to the positive power.
a^-b = 1/a^b
To express the value m^-6 using a positive exponent, you can follow the rule that states when a base is raised to a negative exponent, it can be rewritten as the reciprocal of the base raised to the positive exponent.
So in this case, to express m^-6 as a positive exponent, you can take the reciprocal of m^6.
Reciprocal simply means that you flip the fraction or the base so that the numerator becomes the denominator and vice versa.
Therefore, m^-6 can be expressed as 1/m^6.
To summarize, to convert a negative exponent to a positive exponent, you can take the reciprocal of the base with the positive exponent. In this case, m^-6 becomes 1/m^6.