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Maths Question - Help Please!

Question: If 1/x^3 was written as x^n, what is the value of n?

Would you simply flip it so that it becomes x^(3/1)? So the answer is 3?

Any help would be appreciated as I don't understand it!

Reply 1

halfhearted

Original post by Norse Moose

Question: If 1/x^3 was written as x^n, what is the value of n?

Would you simply flip it so that it becomes x^(3/1)? So the answer is 3?

Any help would be appreciated as I don't understand it!

when you have one divided by x to the power, the power becomes negative.
this might help you understand it better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DafZCveY5ao

Reply 2

Norse Moose

That helped, thanks! :smile: