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Math Tutorial 7.1 - Indices

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There are 4 lessons in this math tutorial covering Indices. The tutorial starts with an introduction to Indices and is then followed with a list of the separate lessons, the tutorial is designed to be read in order but you can skip to a specific lesson or return to recover a specific math lesson as required to build your math knowledge of Indices. you can access all the lessons from this tutorial below.


In this Math tutorial, you will learn:

  • What are indices? What is the other name used for indices?
  • How indices are related to powers?
  • What are the properties of indices?
  • What is the reciprocal of a number?
  • How is the reciprocal involved in raising a number in a negative power?
  • How to calculate the powers of negative numbers?
  • What differs when raising a negative number to an odd power to raising the corresponding positive number at the same power?

Introduction

This tutorial is dedicated to indices (or exponents, as they are randomly known). We have included indices our tutorials in various occasions, but this is the right moment to have them explained thoroughly. In this tutorial a number of properties of indices (also known as the "indices laws") are explained by illustrating each property with examples. Moreover, negative indices and negative numbers raised in a given power are (among others) new situations discussed in this tutorial.

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Powers and Roots Learning Material
Tutorial IDMath Tutorial TitleTutorialVideo
Tutorial
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Notes
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Questions
7.1Indices
Lesson IDMath Lesson TitleLessonVideo
Lesson
7.1.1Powers, Indices, and Exponents
7.1.2Properties of Indices
7.1.3Negative Indices. The Meaning of Reciprocal
7.1.4Powers of Negative Numbers

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