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Evaluate the following expression.
(-3)-² =

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Answer:

The answer to this is 9.

Explanation:

First of all, you wrote the expression wrong, but that's okay. It's supposed to be written as (-3)².

Second of all, since multiplying two negatives makes a positive and squaring is just multiplying the integer to itself, then -3×-3=9. I hope this helps! :)

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