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What is 5 to the negative fourth power

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5×-5= -25×-5= 125×-5= -625. Answer: -625
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You can write 5 to the negative fourth power as 5^(-4). In cases, when you have negative power, you just have to put 5^4 in the denominator. So, instead of 5^(-4), you have 1/(5^4).
5^4 equals to 625.
In the last step you have to divide 1 by 625.

The result is 0.0016.
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