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The reason is that you almost always want the negation to happen after the exponentiation, because it otherwise wouldn’t have any effect (at least when the exponent is even).
Sincere question: why do you put that negative -27 in parentheses?
-27^2/3would come out to a different number, because the exponentiation has a higher precedence than the negationAh, so without parentheses, it would be:
x = -27^2
x / 3?
That doesn’t sound very intuitive though…
yup:
(-27)^2/3=((-27) ^ 2) / 3-27^2/3=(-(27 ^ 2)) / 3The reason is that you almost always want the negation to happen after the exponentiation, because it otherwise wouldn’t have any effect (at least when the exponent is even).
Thanks! 😃
Presumably to avoid ambiguity as to whether the thing to exponentiate is 27 or -27.
-272/3 is a different answer and problem than (-27)2/3.
(-27)2 is (-27)(-27) while -272 is (-27)(27).
I like to think of
-27^2as-(27^2).That’s the common shorthand yes, but its still treated like its there.
The other interpretation is just as valid though.