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Algebra.Com's Answer #185595 by Edwin McCravy(20056) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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document.write( "give the 2 the understood exponent 1\r\n" );
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document.write( "Remove the parentheses on top by multiplying every inner\r\n" );
document.write( "exponent by the outer exponent:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Rewrite  as \r\n" );
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document.write( "Move the  from the\r\n" );
document.write( "top to the bottom by changing the sign of the\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now move the  from the bottom\r\n" );
document.write( "to the top by changing the sign of the\r\n" );
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document.write( "Add the exponents of the x's on top and add the\r\n" );
document.write( "exponents of the y's on the bottom\r\n" );
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