SOLUTION: Please help me with this. I'm suppose to simplify and answer with only positive exponents (3/2)^8 (3/2)^-5 (3/2)^-4 I'm not sure what to do with the 3/2 am I raising to the power
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Question 507336: Please help me with this. I'm suppose to simplify and answer with only positive exponents (3/2)^8 (3/2)^-5 (3/2)^-4 I'm not sure what to do with the 3/2 am I raising to the power and then multipling them. I do know that with the (3/2) that have the negative exponents I flip them to (2/3) but I'm just not sure what to do with all of it together. Thank you for any help you can give. Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! simplify and answer with only positive exponents
(3/2)^8 (3/2)^-5 (3/2)^-4
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= (3/2)^(8-5-4)
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= (3/2)^(-1)
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= 2/3
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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