SOLUTION: solve: divide and simplify. -9u^4v^9/-3u^5v^8

Question 249123: solve: divide and simplify. -9u^4v^9/-3u^5v^8
Answer by College Student(505) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I'm going to solve it one step at a time to show the work.

Simplify:

Since both numerator and denominators are negative, eliminate their sign.
(example: -1/-1=1 ...so we can eliminate the signs.)

Now simplify the coefficients, what is 9/3? Answer 3, thus we get:

Let's cancel some of the u variables, we get:

Let's cancel some of the v variables, we get:

This is as far as we can simplify this expression. I hope the explanations helped you understand the process so you can work other similar problems.
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