Exercise 96 Page 52

Rewriting the exponent as multiplication will allow us to more easily see what it happening in this exercise.

\left( \text{-} \dfrac {3}{4}\right) ^2

MoveNegFracToNum

Put minus sign in numerator

\left(\dfrac {\text{-} 3}{4}\right)^2

PowToProdTwoFac

a^2=a* a

\dfrac {\text{-} 3}{4} \cdot \dfrac {\text{-} 3}{4}

MultFrac

Multiply fractions

\dfrac {(\text{-} 3) (\text{-} 3)}{4 \cdot 4}

MultNegNegTwoPar

(- a)(- b)=a* b

\dfrac {3\cdot 3}{4 \cdot 4}

Multiply

Multiply

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