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

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jour brought to you by fractional bases makes it really

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tough to tell if someone safe or not All right

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what's this thing One fifth of negative Third Well here's

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something lancers All right here we go This question wants

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us to make sure we know our way around and

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negative exposed When our bases of fractions we know that

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negative exponents usually make our basis smaller But what happens

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when our bases already less than one yeah you guessed

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it it goes in the other direction You are very

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small base is about to get an enhancement Whenever we

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have a number like this we can rewrite it with

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the exponents being applied to the numerator and denominator separately

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So here one fifth of negative third is the same

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as one to the negative third over five the negative

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third cheesier to handle you make it easier still we

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can turn our exponents positive as long as we remember

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to switch our numerator and denominator And now our exponents

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are positive Three well five cube is five five times

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five which is a hundred twenty five and one Cubit

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is what upon times online order at one one twenty

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five over one is same as one twenty five and 00:01:21.786 --> [endTime] our answer is the and we're out of here

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