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Understanding Exponents and Powers

This document discusses working with exponents. It provides examples of writing expressions in exponential form and evaluating expressions with exponents. It explores how the value of an expression changes depending on whether the base is positive or negative and whether the exponent is even or odd. Students are asked to substitute values into expressions containing exponents and evaluate.

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Understanding Exponents and Powers

This document discusses working with exponents. It provides examples of writing expressions in exponential form and evaluating expressions with exponents. It explores how the value of an expression changes depending on whether the base is positive or negative and whether the exponent is even or odd. Students are asked to substitute values into expressions containing exponents and evaluate.

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Section

 3.2  –  Work  With  Exponents  


MPM1D  
Jensen  
 
Part  1:  Exponents  Investigation  
 
One  day  Sammy  decided  to  try  a  new  place  for  lunch.  He  went  to  a  new  restaurant  called  Barney’s  
Burgers.  He  loved  the  food  so  much  that  when  he  got  back  to  school  he  told  two  of  his  friends.  Suppose  
that  this  trend  continues  and  every  day  each  new  customer  tells  two  new  friends  at  school  about  Barney’s  
Burgers.  How  many  new  customers  will  Barney  get  each  day?  
 
a)  Complete  the  chart  using  your  knowledge  of  exponents  
 
Day   New  Customers   Expanded  Form   Power  
       
1   2   2   21  
 
       
2   4   2  x  2   22  
 
       
3  
 
       
4  
 
 
b)  Use  this  model  to  determine  how  many  new  customers  Barney  should  expect  on  Day  7.  Show  
your  work.  
 
 
 
 
c)  Use  this  model  to  determine  how  many  new  customers  Barney  should  expect  on  Day  14.  Is  this  
answer  realistic?  Why  or  why  not?  
 
 
 
 
 
d)  Suppose  that  each  new  customer  told  three  friends  instead  of  two,  and  that  this  trend  
continued  
 
i) How many new customer should Barney expect after 2 days?
 
 
 
 
ii) How many new customer should Barney expect after 4 days?
 
Brain  Teaser:  A  rectangular  sheet  of  paper  measures  25  cm  by  9  cm.  The  dimensions  of  a  square  sheet  of  
paper  with  the  same  area  are...  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Part  2:  Exponents  
 
Repeated  multiplication  of  the  same  number  by  itself  can  be  expressed  as  a  power.  The  number  is  said  to  
be  in  exponential  form.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Express  each  of  the  following  in  exponential  form:  
 
1)  3×3  
 
 
2)  5×5×5×5  
 
 
3)  (−2)(−2)(−2)(−2)(−2)  
 
 
4)  ℎ  ×  ℎ  ×  ℎ  
 
 
Write  each  expression  in  expanded  form  and  then  evaluate:  
 
5)  2!  
 
 
6)  (−3)!  
 
 
7)  −3!    
 
 
 
! !
𝑎 ! 𝑎!
8)   !   𝑁𝑜𝑡𝑒: ! ! = !  
𝑏 𝑏
   
  Therefore:  
   
  2 !
  ! ! =  
3
   
Find  the  Trend  
 
 
Evaluate  each  of  the  following:  
 
(−2)!       (−2)!       (−2)!       (−2)!  
 
 
 
 
 
 
If  the  base  of  the  power  is  negative:  

-­‐  and  the  exponent  is  an  even  #  ,  the  answer  will  be_________________________.  

-­‐  and  the  exponent  is  an  odd  #  ,  the  answer  will  be__________________________.  
 
 
 
Part  3:  Substitute  and  Evaluate  
 
Evaluate  the  expression  for  the  given    values  of  the  variables:  
 
9)  6𝑥 !      for  𝑥 = 5  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10)  6𝑥 ! − 2𝑥 − 24        for  𝑥 = −6  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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