SOLUTION: I need help with the following. The negative exponents in the denominator are throwing me....
{{{xy^2 - 3xy/y^(-1) + 2x^0y^2/x^(-1) - 4x^2/(y^2) + 2x^2y^(-2)}}}
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{{{xy^2 - 3xy/y^(-1) + 2x^0y^2/x^(-1) - 4x^2/(y^2) + 2x^2y^(-2)}}}
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: I need help with the following. The negative exponents in the denominator are throwing me....
This question is from textbook Saxon Algebra 1
You can put this solution on YOUR website! You can use the following rule to get rid of negative exponents:
or equivalently:
So you can make the exponent positive, but you must also change the X value to its reciprocal. For example,
Let's apply this rule to your equation, and "convert" all the exponents to positive numbers:
This is the same as:
The first 3 terms cancel out. So we're left just with:
We can further reduce this by grouping x^2 and y^2:
And this is as far as we can go.