Easily, you write the inverse of it without a minus
so if you were to find x^(-2) it would be (1/x)^2
The rest is all the same
$480 is the price after the discount was added. We can then assume that $480 is 3/4 the price of the original item. To find 1/4, we simply divide by 3, which equals $160. since $160 is one quarter of the price, the original price was $640.
They can conclude that the certain animal ( of the fossil) had either migrated to that place or was brought to that certain place this is also proof of of the Continental Drift Theory that there was a Pangaea and split apart around a certain time.