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Okay here we go here's The question Exit The fifth

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equals negative one Which of the following is equal to

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x to the three hundred sixty second If x to

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the fifth is negative one the only possible value for

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x is negative one right Because you're multiplying an odd

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number of times we got negative one than time thing

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One would be positive one times that negative want to

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be the third But you did it the fifth time

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so it's negative one Well in that case x to

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the three sixty second that's negative one to the three

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sixty seconds it has to be equal to one and

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even power of a negative number is positive in any

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power of negative One is either negative one or positive

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one got it So if you didn't know the fact

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that it's an even number to the power of thingy

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there makes it and even number well you could have

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just looked at the x to the fifth thing and

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x to the fourth was a positive number and exit

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The fifth was thinking about to six positive Just kind

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of derived it that way okay that's it We're done 00:01:02.071 --> [endTime] fish

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