Solution - Simplification or other simple results

Reformatting the input :

Changes made to your input should not affect the solution:

(1): "^-3" was replaced by "^(-3)".

Step  1  :

 1.1   Raising to a negative exponent

Raising a number to a negative exponent means 1 over that 
same number but now with a positive exponent.

For example, x(-3) is equal to 1/x(3) 


 1.2   

Negative number raised to an odd power is negative

To show this we begin with (-7)⁵ ,a negative number raised to an odd exponent:

(-7)⁵ can be written as (-7)•(-7)•(-7)•(-7)•(-7)

Now, using the rule that says minus times minus is plus, (-7)⁵ can be written as (49)•(49)•(-7) which is a negative number. 

 We showed that (-7)⁵ is a negative number  

 Using the same arguments as above, replacing (-7) by any negative number, and replacing the exponent 5 by any odd exponent, we proved which had to be proved  

 

Final result :

  -1            
  —— = -0.12500 
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