Questions and Answers
What does an exponent tell you?
How many times its base is used as a factor.
Exponents are used to write which of the following?
Any number to the zeroth power is equal to 0.
False
Any number to the first power is equal to itself.
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When 10 is raised to a whole number exponent, its value has a leftmost digit of 1 and all other digits are ___.
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Study Notes
Exponents Overview
- Exponent indicates how many times the base multiplies itself.
- Used to express repeated multiplication in a compact form.
Properties of Exponents
- Any number raised to the zeroth power equals 1.
- Any number raised to the first power remains the same as the original number.
Powers of Ten
- When 10 is raised to a whole number exponent, it yields a value with '1' followed by a number of zeros equal to the exponent.
- Example: (10^3 = 1000) (1 followed by 3 zeros).
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