Evaluate 0.5^-2

${0.5}^{- 2}$

Step 1

Rewrite the expression using the negative exponent rule $b^{- n} = \frac{1}{b^{n}}$ .

$\frac{1}{{0.5}^{2}}$

Step 2

Raise $0.5$ to the power of $2$ .

$\frac{1}{0.25}$

Step 3

Divide $1$ by $0.25$ .

$4$