I've a question that generates a negative index for an assigned function and then displays it as outlined below:
Question Variables:
a0:rand(9)+1; a:a0*(-1); f(x):=x^a;
Question text:
Find the gradient function \[y'={@f(x)@}\].
This results in:
is there a way to force it to display the negative index (see below for desired result) without resorting to manually entering the function into the Question text
Question-level simplify = "No" doesn't fix it:
Thanks in advance,
Mike
Apologies... not sure what happened to the first screenshot image, it should have read:
"This results in:
is there a way to force it to display the negative index..."
I am going to move this to the "Mathematics tools" forum, since that is where most STACK discussion takes place.
Thanks Tim - I'll post there from now on.
Hi Mike,
this should work (at least for the part of the question you mentioned):
simp:false;
a0:rand(9)+1;
a:ev(a0*(-1),simp);
f(x):=x^a;
Or you generate the exponent in a different way:
simp:false;
a:rand_with_step(-9,-1,1);
f(x):=x^a;
Stephan.
It worked! Many thanks Stephan!
