Question

What is 2^-4 evaluated?

Answer 1

`0.0625`

Explanation:

Anything to the power of a negative number, means you are taking a reciprocal of the same result to a positive power.

For example:

`2^(-1)=(1)/(2^1)=0.5`

Applying this same logic,

`2^(-4) = (1)/(2^4) =0.0625`