Question

If the power has brackets around the negative number and the exponent is an oddnumber, the answer will be (circle one) negative/positive.

Answer 1

To find:

The answer is positive or negative.

Solution:

If the power has around the negative number and the exponent is odd number, then the answer will be negative.

Let use understand it with a example:

`\begin{gathered} (-2)^3=-2*-2*-2 \\ =(4)*-2 \\ =-8 \end{gathered}`

Here, the answer is a negative number.

Thus, the answer is negative.