document.write( "Question 208706This question is from textbook Algebra and Trigonometry Structure and Method Book 2
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Please, help me with this, step by step:
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document.write( "Make sure every number and letter inside the\r\n" );
document.write( "parentheses shows an exponent, even if it's \"1\":\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"%283%5E1x%5E%28-2%29y%5E1%29%5E%28-1%29%2F%282%5E1x%5E1y%5E%28-2%29%29%5E0\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "To remove parentheses, multiply every inside\r\n" );
document.write( "exponent by the outside exponent:\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"%283%5E%28-1%29x%5E2%2Ay%5E%28-1%29%29%2F%282%5E0x%5E0y%5E0%29\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "Since any number raised to the zero power is 1, the denominator\r\n" );
document.write( "is just \"1%2A1%2A1\" or \"1\".\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"%28+3%5E%28-1%29x%5E2y%5E%28-1%29%29+%2F1\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "To get rid of a negative exponent, move it from top \r\n" );
document.write( "to the bottom or bottom to top and change the sign \r\n" );
document.write( "of the exponent to positive:\r\n" );
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document.write( "So we move \"3%5E%28-1%29\" and \"y%5E%28-1%29\" from top to bottom and \r\n" );
document.write( "change the sign and we now have:\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"%28+x%5E2%29+%2F%281%2A3%5E1y%5E1%29\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "And we can leave the 1's understood:\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"x%5E2+%2F%283y%29\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "Edwin
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