What does 5³ mean?

What does 5⁵ mean?

So what is 5³ x 5⁵? And how do we write this in index form. How about 5⁵ ÷ 5³? How about 5³÷ 5⁵?

Exercise

Let’s complete exercise 1C from page 14 of the textbook:

The answers are below:

Zero and negative indices

What do zero and negative indices mean? Can we work it out?

Exercise

Let’s complete exercise 1D from page 15 and 16 of the textbook:

The answers are below: