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We're asked to graph y = 5 to the x power. And we'll just do this the most basic way.

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We'll just try out some values for x and see what we get for y,

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and then we'll plot with those coordinates.

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So let's try some negative and some positive values

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and I'll try to center them around zero, so this will be my x values, and this will be my y values.

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Let's start first with something reasonably negative, but not too negative,

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So let's say we start with x = -2. Then y = 5^x or 5^-2,