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• ok.... the exponent gets distributed to what is inside the parentheses only. So, if you raise it to the 3rd power, the equation with the parenthesis expanded is the equivalent of: -(-5 * -5 * -5) -(25 * - 5) ==> the -5 * -5 because a 25 b…

  in how do you evaluate this problem? Comment by c-wryte May 2021
• ok.... the exponent gets distributed to what is inside the parentheses only. So, if you raise it to the 3rd power, the equation with the parenthesis expanded is the equivalent of: -(-5 * -5 * -5) -(25 * - 5) ==> the -5 * -5 because a 25 b…

  in how do you evaluate this problem? Comment by c-wryte May 2021
• ok.... the exponent gets distributed to what is inside the parentheses only. So, if you raise it to the 3rd power, the equation with the parenthesis expanded is the equivalent of: -(-5 * -5 * -5) -(25 * - 5) ==> the -5 * -5 because a 25 b…

  in how do you evaluate this problem? Comment by c-wryte May 2021