Answer: 12
Step-by-step explanation:
Answer: B
Step-by-step explanation: A function is a relation in which each input value is paired to exactly one output value.
Technically, if you had the same input value twice and the same output value corresponded to each of those, it would still be a function because you are just repeating what you have twice.
However, most teachers want to think of it as each input value must have exactly one corresponding value to be a function.
Matt could do one of the following arrangements;
2 rows of 8 CDs
4 rows of 4 CDs
Negative exponents work like this:

So, in order to evaluate a negative exponent, you simply have to invert the base, and then raise to the positive equivalent of the exponent.
As an example, here are the first three exercises:



You can work out the rest applying this logic.