SOLUTION: simplify 1/9^-5

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Question 623401: simplify
1/9^-5
Answer by unlockmath(1688) About Me  (Show Source):
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Hello,
With this: 1/9^-5
We first want to get rid of the negative exponent by flipping the numbers:
9/1^5
Now 9 to the fifth power is:
59049
Make sense?
RJ
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