Students learn how to evaluate and simplify expressions involving negative and fractional indices, applying the index laws to numerical terms such as roots, reciprocals and powers of fractions.
As learning progresses, students apply these skills to exam-style questions, combining multiple index laws to solve equations and evaluate expressions given as simplified fractions.
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