SOLUTION: Describe the following pattern: (-1)1=? ;(-1)-2=? ;(-1)-3=? ;(-1)-4=?. Determine what (-1)-100 would be. Justify your thinking. The numbers outside the parentheses are exponents.

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Question 892438: Describe the following pattern: (-1)1=? ;(-1)-2=? ;(-1)-3=? ;(-1)-4=?. Determine what (-1)-100 would be. Justify your thinking. The numbers outside the parentheses are exponents.
Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!




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if is even
if is odd.
So since is even,


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