Math worksheet for practicing negative exponents with a riddle-solving activity.

It looks like you've uploaded a worksheet titled "Riddle Me Negative Exponents", which is a math puzzle involving simplifying expressions with negative exponents. The goal is to simplify each expression, then use the simplified answer to fill in the blanks and solve a riddle.

Since I can't view images directly, I’ll need you to provide the text of the problems or describe them so I can help you solve them step by step.

However, based on the structure of such worksheets, here's how these typically work:

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🔍 What You Need to Do:

1. Simplify each algebraic expression using the rules of exponents, especially:
- $ a^{-n} = \frac{1}{a^n} $
- $ \frac{1}{a^{-n}} = a^n $
- $ a^m \cdot a^n = a^{m+n} $
- $ \frac{a^m}{a^n} = a^{m-n} $
- $ (a^m)^n = a^{mn} $

2. After simplifying, match your answer to one of the lettered options (like A), which corresponds to a letter in the riddle.

3. Use the letters to decode the riddle.

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🧩 Example Problem (from what’s visible):

Let’s suppose one of the problems is:

> Q) $ \frac{xy}{x^{-4}y^{-9}} $

We simplify:

$$
\frac{xy}{x^{-4}y^{-9}} = x^{1 - (-4)} y^{1 - (-9)} = x^{5} y^{10}
$$

So this would simplify to $ x^5 y^{10} $. Then you’d look for that expression among the choices (A–Z) and find the corresponding letter.

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✔ Common Simplification Rules Recap:

- Negative exponent: $ a^{-n} = \frac{1}{a^n} $
- Move negative exponents to the denominator (or numerator) to make them positive.
- Combine like bases by adding exponents when multiplying, subtracting when dividing.

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💡 How to Proceed:

Please provide the list of problems (e.g., Q1, Q2, etc.) and the answer choices (A–Z) from the image, or type out the expressions.

Alternatively, if you want me to simulate solving it, give me:

1. The 12 problems (like Q, N, T, etc.)
2. The list of lettered answers (A–Z)
3. The riddle clues (if any)

Then I’ll:
- Solve each problem
- Match answers to letters
- Reveal the riddle

👉 Just copy-paste the text from the image, and I’ll solve it!