This math topic focuses on handling exponents with negative bases and understanding the effects of raising negative numbers to different powers. Specifically, it challenges students to calculate the results of negative numbers multiplied by themselves several times. The problems involve assessing various integer powers of negative numbers, illustrating how exponentiation can change the sign and magnitude of the outcomes based on whether the exponent is odd or even. The topic is part of an advanced unit on exponents, designed to deepen understanding of properties of powers and exponentiation in mathematics.
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Practice:
Negative Base Expanded
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Find the answer when this number is multiplied by itself as shown
Exponents - Negative Base Expanded Worksheet
| Math worksheet on 'Exponents - Negative Base Expanded (Level 2)'. Part of a broader unit on 'Exponents - Advanced' Learn online: app.mobius.academy/math/units/exponents_advanced/ |
| Find the answer when this number is multiplied by itself as shown |
| -12 |
| -1,728 |
| 20,736 |
| 144 |
| 141 |
| -10 |
| Find the answer when this number is multiplied by itself as shown |
| 4 |
| -2 |
| -6 |
| 16 |
| -11 |
| -8 |
| Find the answer when this number is multiplied by itself as shown |
| -243 |
| 81 |
| 1 |
| 84 |
| -12 |
| -27 |
| Find the answer when this number is multiplied by itself as shown |
| 121 |
| -22 |
| -11 |
| 14,641 |
| 118 |
| -1,331 |
| Find the answer when this number is multiplied by itself as shown |
| -1,024 |
| -12 |
| 256 |
| -64 |
| -1 |
| 16 |
| Find the answer when this number is multiplied by itself as shown |
| 64 |
| -128 |
| -32 |
| 3 |
| -10 |
| 16 |
| Find the answer when this number is multiplied by itself as shown |
| -243 |
| -27 |
| -24 |
| -9 |
| 0 |
| 9 |