If a negative number is multiplied by an exponent does it become positive

At Pizza Pi, 85% of the pizzas made last week had extra cheese. If 17 pizzas had extra cheese, how many pizzas in all were made last week?

Find the sum of the "n" terms of the series: Sn=1²+3²+5² + ... + (2n-1) ²

12 (3w+8) = 25 what is the w

For the opening day of a carnival, 800 admission tickets were sold. The receipts totaled $3775. Tickets for children cost $3 each, tickets for adults cost $8 each, and tickets for senior citizens cost $5 each.

An anthropologist finds bone that her instruments measure it as 0.601% of the amount of Carbon-14 the bones would have contained when the person was alive. How long ago did the person die? The half life of carbon 14 is 5,730 years.

On the total amount of money spent by a school district for 1980 through 2000, the percent, p, spent on athletics can be modeled by this equation; P=2.49 (1.07) ^t Where t stands for time, and t=0 in 1980.

7000 is 10 Times as much as what number

Ishaan is 2 times as old as Christopher. 35 years ago, Ishaan was 7 times as old as Christopher. How old is Christopher now?

Brain made a tasty burger. The diameter was 5 cm. What is the radius of the circle?

Right? Wrong! If I subtract 7 from one side of the equation, what must I do to the other side of the equation