Is the answer to your question 9?
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>
ANSWER

EXPLANATION
Recall that,

That is why

is equivalent to

This implies that,

This is the same as,

When we are dividing by

we move the decimal point backwards two times.
This implies that,
Divide both sides by -6 and don't forget to flip the inequality symbol
-7>d
d<-7