Question

Thanks in advance for the answer

Answer 1

$2^{-2} = \frac{1}{2^{2}} = \frac{1}{4}$

does this make sense to you? Do you have any questions about raising numbers to a negative value?

Answer 2

Any number raised to the negative power, is simply, 1 over that number raised to the opposite of the negative number.

For example, 2 to the power of -2 would end up being:

$\frac{1}{ 2^{2} }$ = 1/4

Same with all the others.

For example, 3 to the power of  -3 would end up being:

$\frac{1}{ 3^{3} }$

And then you would just solve for the exponent on the bottom.