How to find smallest and largest representable number possible given a Normalized Floating Point System

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Let's say you are given the normalized floating-point system: $R_3(3, 1)$ with exponent range $−1 ≤ e ≤ 1$ The base is $3$, mantissa length is $3$ and exponent length is $1$. How would you go about to find the smallest and largest positive number possible?