What is a conclusion you can make about a negative number raised to am odd power?

That the result will be negative

because

a negative number, example - 2 is equal to - 1 times 2

odd power

even powers cancel negatives

so examle

(-2) ^3 = ((2^3) ((-1) ^3) = (8) (-1) = - 8

the concluseion is that the result will be negative