MATH 133

PLANE AND SPHERICAL

TRIGONOMETRY

Anni Lou D. Bordios

EXPONENTIAL
FUNCTIONS
 The exponent of a number
says how many times to
use the number in a
EXPONENTS multiplication.

Example:
82 – the “2” says to use 8 twice in a
multiplication,
82 = 8 x 8 = 64

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EXPONENTS

an tells you to multiply a by itself, so there are n of those a’s

**an can also be written as a^n

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EXPONENTS

an tells you to multiply a by itself, so there are n of those a’s

**an can also be written as a^n

Example:
24
5^3

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Laws of Exponents
Given exponents m and n to be any number, the following laws hold:
I. 𝑎𝑚 𝑎𝑛 = 𝑎𝑚+𝑛 𝑚 𝑛
VI. 𝑎 𝑛 = 𝑎𝑚
𝑎𝑚
II. = 𝑎𝑚−𝑛
𝑎𝑛 1 1
𝑉𝐼𝐼. 𝑎−𝑚 = 𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 −𝑚 = 𝑎𝑚
III. 𝑎𝑚 𝑛 = 𝑎𝑚𝑛 𝑎 𝑎
IV. 𝑎𝑏 𝑚
=𝑎 𝑏 𝑚 𝑚 𝑉𝐼𝐼𝐼. 𝑎0 = 1

𝑎 𝑚 𝑎𝑚
V. 𝑏
=
𝑏𝑚
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𝐸𝑋𝐴𝑀𝑃𝐿𝐸:
Evaluate the following:
1. 32 3−3
−3
3
2.
2
1
3. 25 ∗ 49 2

Find the value of x which satisfies the equation

4. 10𝑋 = 1000
5. 𝑥 2 = 100
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