SOLUTION: hi. I am doing a program called Learning Upgrade. We have not yet covered dividing monomials in class and that is the level that i am on. Could you explain to me how to divide mono

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Question 575279: hi. I am doing a program called Learning Upgrade. We have not yet covered dividing monomials in class and that is the level that i am on. Could you explain to me how to divide monomials?
Answer by richard1234(7193) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You just find all the like terms and divide those separately, e.g.



We have

6/3 = 2
(x^3)/x = x^2
(y^4)/(y^5) = 1/y
z/(z^2) = 1/(z^2). Leave the w in the numerator since it can't combine with anything else.

Therefore,



You'll see more examples of this when you learn how to divide them.