You would evaluate by plugging in the given number of 7 to get your answer.
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.
the slope goes by several names
• average rate of change
• rate of change
• deltaY over deltaX
• Δy over Δx
• rise over run
• gradient
• constant of proportionality
however, is the same cat wearing different costumes.
and to get it, we simply need two points off of the straight line, hmm let's use the ones in the picture below.
