SOLUTION: please advise, how do you figure out negative 1/4 to the negative 3 power?

Question 100463: please advise, how do you figure out negative 1/4 to the negative 3 power?
Found 2 solutions by checkley71, edjones:
Answer by checkley71(8403) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
(-1/4)^-3=1/(-1/4)^3=1/(-1/64)=-64 answer
Answer by edjones(8007) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
there can be a big difference in whether the minus sign is inside or out side the parenthesis if the exponent is even but not in this case.

Ed
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