What happens when x is just greater than minus 3? Just being greater than minus 3, that's like minus 2.9999. When you take minus 2.99 and square it, you're going to get a positive number. This is going to be positive. If you take minus 2.99 to the fourth, that's going to be a little bit less than 81 because 2.99 to the fourth is a little bit less than 81. This is still going to be positive. You have positive times a positive divided by a positive.