2x 3.50 = $7 notebook sale 1x 3.00 = $3 pen sale Total sale = $10.00 less $1.00 profit To find percentage of profit $1.00/$10.00 = .10 or 10%
Negative exponents mean that you flip the number upside down
so -7^-2 would become 1/-7^2
-7^2 would be 49
so the answer is <em>1/49</em>
834 ➗ 2 =417. I hope I helped :)