Evaluate: Give answers as fractions or integers.

Question

1. (3^-2)^-1

2. -6^-2

For #1, I got positive 9. Is that correct?
For #2, I got 1/-36. Is that correct?

Answer 1

# 1 is 9. so yeah you get it correct.
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# 2 is -0.027.

Answer 2

I got the same for #1.

For #2

(-6)^-2
=1/((-6)^2)
=1/(36

Answer 3

You are CORRECT on #2. Also
There is no parenthesis in the problem. I copied it down and added it.

Answer 4

Thanks for the replys.