See how you like this way where we get rid of parentheses first. I'm going to take more steps than necessary because you can do several of these steps all in one step:1. We make sure every factor shows its 1 exponent if it doesn't already have another exponent. Like this: 2. When you have a fraction multiplied by a non-fraction, make the non-fraction into a fraction by putting a 1 under it: 3. Next remove the parentheses by distributing every exponent that is inside the parentheses times the exponent just outside the parentheses. The -4 will be squared so we can just ignore the negative dign: 4. There are only two negative exponents. The rule is: Move the factors with negative exponents on the bottom to the top, and on the top to the bottom, and change the sign of the exponent to positive. So we move m-20 to the bottom as m20 and we move n-2 to the top as n2. 5. Let's just have one big fraction: 6. Let's add the exponents of like letters in order to multiply: 7. Let's subtract the exponents larger minus smaller and place the result where the larger exponent was The m22 is on the bottom and the m2 is on the top. So we subtract exponents 22-2 and get 20 and write m20 on the bottom because the larger exponent was on the bottom. 8. Write the 91 as 9 and then as 32 9. Subtract the exponents of 3 and get 32 on the top because the largere exponent was on top. 10. Write 32 as 9 and 42 as 16 11. Multiply the 9 by the 16 and get 144 Edwin