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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop toos

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your brought to you by negative imagers They're always preceded

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by a negative sign like response Vex and wire Negative

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integers and exit powerful i can be which of the

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following year special answers thinking So we have two mystery

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imagers both negative And we want to know what happens

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when we take one to the power of the other

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Remember all it takes is one working example Each of

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positive real number negative rial number or negative energy to

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do the trick Well let's start with a positive rial

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number Is there an instance where this could happen Well

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sure Anytime A negative number of square to composite The

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negative sign in the exponents turns our number into a

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fraction So if for example act was negative one and

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why was negative too Well exit the power of why

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would become one over negative one squared and anyone square

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It is just gone No a work moving on What

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about a negative rial number Well sure if x is

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negative one and wise Negative three The fraction we convert

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that to is one over Negative one Use a third

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Make it run in the third to still make it

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one Since it gets reflected across the number line twice

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and one over Negative one just one which is both

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a negative rial number and a negative image Er meeting

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the both dnc workers Well so a b and c

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are all in The next Then we're gonna have to

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go with ease Our final answer Way hope this video

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wasn't negative experience for you it's So watch it twice 00:01:38.827 --> [endTime] and almost blind