x-1 = 1/x
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No Actually... x^(-y) is equal to 1/x^y. 2^(-2) is equal to 1/2^2 which is equal to 1/4 or 0.25.
10 to the negative 27th power is equal to 1 divided by 10 raised to the 27th power. This can be simplified to 1 divided by 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is equal to 0.0000000000000000000000000001. In scientific notation, this number would be written as 1 x 10^-27.
For all x not equal to 0, -x/x = -1
x-5 power = 1 over x to the positive 5th power which would look like this: 1 ---- x5
A negative times a negative equals a positive.Positive.- x - = ++ x - = -