David M. answered • 01/14/19
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Dave "The Math Whiz"
Negative four to the fourth power is written as follows:
(-4)4
A number to a power means that is how many times you multiply that number by itself. Therefore, we need to find out what (-4) X (-4) X (-4) X (-4) is. Remembering that a negative times a negative will always yield a positive, we can see that a negative raised to an even number will always give us a positive value. Therefore, (-4) X (-4) X (-4) X (-4) is the same as 4 X 4 X 4 X 4 = 256.
Nasir H.
the correct answer is -256 being that there is no parenthesis around the -412/27/19