You can put this solution on YOUR website! Given to simplify:
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You got the answer correct if you meant it to be interpreted as:
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You correctly recognized that you divide the two in the denominator into the 3 in the numerator. Then, if you recognized that in this problem the x term in the denominator is the divisor and the x term in the numerator is the dividend and when you divide these two you subtract the exponent 3 of the divisor from the exponent -5 of the dividend to get the answer .
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So the answer to the problem could have been written as:
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And by the rules of exponents, you can put the x term in the denominator, but in doing so its exponent changes sign. In this case the answer can be written as the answer that you got. Namely as:
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Hope this helps you to gain some further understanding of and confidence in the method that you used in working this problem. Good job!!! Keep it up!!!
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