Question

How to evaluate (-3)^-4?

Answer 1

1/81

Answer 2

How did you get that answer?

Answer 3

The way that I do this is by taking 1/-3^4.
Any exponent that is negative can be made positive by reciprocating the base, in this case -3.
Since the power is to the 4th the answer is positive.

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Answer 4

ohhh, yup.