SOLUTION: Simplify. Write your answer with only positive exponents. Please show work. y^5/y^10

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Question 117807: Simplify. Write your answer with only positive exponents. Please show work.

y^5/y^10

Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Start with the given expression.


Remember when you divide monomials, you subtract their corresponding exponents. For instance


Simplify.


Rewrite as

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Answer:

So simplifies to .

In other words, .

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