SOLUTION: solve: divide and simplify. -9u^4v^9/-3u^5v^8

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Question 249123: solve: divide and simplify. -9u^4v^9/-3u^5v^8
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I'm going to solve it one step at a time to show the work.

Simplify:
%28-9u%5E4v%5E9%29%2F%28-3u%5E5v%5E8%29
Since both numerator and denominators are negative, eliminate their sign.
(example: -1/-1=1 ...so we can eliminate the signs.)
%289u%5E4v%5E9%29%2F%283u%5E5v%5E8%29
Now simplify the coefficients, what is 9/3? Answer 3, thus we get:
%283u%5E4v%5E9%29%2F%28u%5E5v%5E8%29
Let's cancel some of the u variables, we get:
%283v%5E9%29%2F%28uv%5E8%29
Let's cancel some of the v variables, we get:
3v%2Fu

This is as far as we can simplify this expression. I hope the explanations helped you understand the process so you can work other similar problems.