Thread: negative exponent

-0.0583 = x^-2

Solve for x.



What do you have to do to -0.0583 to find x?

Just remember that .

So you need to solve . Which should be pretty easy.

Hope that helps!

EDIT: Just noticed there's a wrinkle here, since the answer involves the square root of a negative number. So the actual answer is imaginary (i.e. a complex number). Still, that aside, that's how negative exponents basically work.