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A quality control analyst is evaluating a tolerance ratio containing the expression (ab)4\left(-\frac{a}{b}\right)^{-4}. According to the rules for exponents, after taking the reciprocal of the fraction to make the exponent positive, the final expression will be positive because a negative base raised to an ____ power results in a positive value.

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