If you look at the screenshot below:
what are the rules in regards to negative exponents?
Does the negative disappear once the exponents has been subtracted?
Why would it not become:
x^-8/4
x^-2
(which would end up being not a real number? x*-x = -x thus -x*-x = x)
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