Rewrite the expression without using a negative exponent.
-2m^-5
Simplify the answer as much as possible.
moving an exponent over the fraction line changes its sign
-2 / m^5
To rewrite the expression without using a negative exponent, we can apply the rule that states a negative exponent can be moved to the denominator (or numerator, depending on the initial location of the negative exponent) and turned into a positive exponent.
For the expression -2m^-5, we can move the m^-5 to the denominator as m^5. This gives us:
-2/m^5
To simplify the expression further, we can see that -2 is already in its simplest form. Therefore, the final simplified expression without using a negative exponent is:
-2/m^5
To rewrite the expression "-2m^-5" without using a negative exponent, we can use the rule that states a negative exponent is equivalent to the reciprocal of the base raised to the positive exponent.
So, we start by taking the reciprocal of the base and changing the sign of the exponent:
-2m^-5 = -2(1/m^5)
Next, we simplify the expression by multiplying -2 with the reciprocal of m^5:
-2(1/m^5) = -2/m^5
The final simplified expression without using a negative exponent is "-2/m^5".