SOLUTION: Please help me solve this problem: 3x^4+3x^-3y+18x^-2y^2 ___________ __________ 12xy^3+3y^4

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Question 216450: Please help me solve this problem:
3x^4+3x^-3y+18x^-2y^2
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12xy^3+3y^4

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Please help me solve this problem:



Factor out the GCF which in the numerator includes
3 and the smallest power term of x, which is .







The reason I got the  was because I subtracted the
exponent I was taking OUT from the exponent I was taking
it OUT OF, i.e., . For a similar reason, I got
 in the term  from .   

Then we bring the  to the bottom as 



Edwin
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