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document.write( "and  can be written as ,\r\n" );
document.write( "then  can be written as \r\n" );
document.write( "Then we can flip the fraction inside the \r\n" );
document.write( "parentheses and change the sign of the exponent\r\n" );
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document.write( "So now we have\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now we can equate the exponents since the bases\r\n" );
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