document.write( "Question 1014033: Simplify (-3a^3b^2)(4ab)/ 2a^7b in at least TWO ways. Explain each step.
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document.write( "Method 1: By writing the exponents as repeated multiplications,\r\n" );
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document.write( "Method 2: By adding exponents to multiply and then subtracting\r\n" );
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document.write( "Divide the -12 on the top by the 2 on the bottom, getting -6 on the\r\n" );
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document.write( "Subtract the exponents of \"a\", 7-4 getting exponent 3 and putting \r\n" );
document.write( "a3 on the bottom because the larger exponent of \"a\" was \r\n" );
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document.write( "Subtract the exponents of \"b\", 3-1 (understood) getting exponent 2 \r\n" );
document.write( "and putting b2 on the top because the larger exponent of \r\n" );
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