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Objectives Students will simplify expressions involving the quotient of monomials. Students will simplify expressions containing negative exponents.

Zero Exponent Any nonzero number raised to the zero power is 1. Example 1: (5x 2 ) 0 = 1

Negative Exponent For any nonzero number a and any integer n, a -n is the reciprocal of a n. Example 2:

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