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A laboratory technician is documenting a procedure that involves a measurement expressed as 1 / (10^-6) meters. To simplify the documentation, they need to apply the Property of Negative Exponents. According to this property, where the base is not equal to zero, which of the following is equivalent to the expression 1 / (a^-n)?
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