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Lesson: Challenging Arithmetic - 20

Even and Odd Powers

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A negative number raised to an even power becomes positive:

Video Lesson - Even and Odd Powers

A negative number raised to an odd power remains negative:

Therefore:

and

could be positive or negative, since we don't know whether y is even or odd.

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