How do you simplify #-4^2#?
2 Answers
Explanation:
Hence
This is different from negative exponents (where the question was originally classified).
Negative exponent would be something like
Explanation:
If this term had been in a calculation there would not have been the slightest hesitation in answering:
In
Because of the rules for order of operations,PEDMAS, BODMAS, etc, the more powerful operation (squaring) has to be done first.