Can you raise a number to the power of second and get a value less than the original number?

What is the answer to this question? i'm a bit stumped. also how do i do it? 5(x - 4) = 2(x + 5)

Billy plotted −3 4 and −1 4 on a number line to determine that −3 4 is smaller than −1 4 is he correct? explain why or why not?

Acomposition of transformations maps δxyz to δx"y"z". the first transformation for this composition is , and the second transformation is a 90° rotation about point x'.