document.write( "Question 476257: simplify the following expression, and rewrite it in an equivalent forom with positive exponents.\r
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Algebra.Com's Answer #326566 by Edwin McCravy(20059) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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document.write( "The x inside the parentheses has its exponent -3 showing.\r\n" );
document.write( "The 4 inside the parentheses has the exponent 1 but it \r\n" );
document.write( "is not showing, so let's give it a 1 exponent that shows:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Next we will remove the parentheses by using the distributive\r\n" );
document.write( "principle of exponents.  That is we multiply each exponent\r\n" );
document.write( "that is inside the parentheses, the 1 and the -3,  by the exponent\r\n" );
document.write( "just outside the parentheses, the -4.  So we get:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now to make the exponent -4 positive, we move the base and exponent\r\n" );
document.write( "to the denominator and change the sign of the exponent to positive:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Finally we write  as 256\r\n" );
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