document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=93261>Question 93261</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Divide\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "4d exponent 9 m exponent 6 * 10d exponent 9 m exponent 6<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "</I><HR><TABLE width=100%><TR><TD><B><A HREF=http://www.algebra.com/>Algebra.Com's</A> Answer #68283 by </B><A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=bucky><B>bucky(2189)</B></A><img src=\"/images/stars/stars-13.gif\" alt=\"\" >&nbsp;<A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=bucky><IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/images/aboutme-small.gif BORDER=0 alt=\"About Me\" VALIGN=MIDDLE></A>&nbsp;<IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/images/nopicture.jpg><BR>You can <A HREF=\"/cgi-bin/embed-solution.mpl?show=1&solution=68283\">put this solution on YOUR website!</A><BR><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> If I understand your problem correctly, it is:<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Let's begin by multiplying the two terms in the numerator. You do that by first multiplying the<BR>\n" );
document.write( "constants. So you begin by multiplying 4 times 10 to get 40. Then you multiply the terms that<BR>\n" );
document.write( "have a common base. You do that by adding their exponents. So <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=d%5E9+%2A+d%5E9+=+d%5E18 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"d%5E9+%2A+d%5E9+=+d%5E18\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" > and<BR>\n" );
document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=m%5E6+%2A+m%5E6+=+m%5E12 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"m%5E6+%2A+m%5E6+=+m%5E12\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" >. Putting these three multiplications together in the numerator makes<BR>\n" );
document.write( "the problem become:<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Then you do the division ... dividing the terms in the denominator into the like terms in the<BR>\n" );
document.write( "numerator. For those terms having exponents, when you divide them into a term with a like<BR>\n" );
document.write( "base in the numerator, the result is the base raised to an exponent that is the difference<BR>\n" );
document.write( "between the exponent in the numerator minus the exponent of that base in the denominator.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "For this division, begin by dividing the constants. Divide 2 into the 40 of the numerator to<BR>\n" );
document.write( "get 20 as the answer. Then divide <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=d%5E18%2Fd%5E9 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"d%5E18%2Fd%5E9\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" > by subtracting the exponents to get this<BR>\n" );
document.write( "answer as <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=d%5E%2818-9%29+=+d%5E9 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"d%5E%2818-9%29+=+d%5E9\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" >. And finally divide <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=m%5E12%2Fm%5E9+=+m%5E%2812-9%29+=+m%5E3 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"m%5E12%2Fm%5E9+=+m%5E%2812-9%29+=+m%5E3\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" >. The<BR>\n" );
document.write( "final answer then becomes the product of these three quotients as in:<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "And that's the answer to this problem. Hope this helps you to understand some of the methods<BR>\n" );
document.write( "that are involved in solving problems such as these.<BR>\n" );
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