SOLUTION: Write each fraction in simplest form:
-15x^3y^3
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-20xy^4
This is how I thought it should be done:
3*5*x*x*x*y*y*y
4*5*x*y*y*y*y
You cancel out the numbers that
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-> SOLUTION: Write each fraction in simplest form:
-15x^3y^3
----------
-20xy^4
This is how I thought it should be done:
3*5*x*x*x*y*y*y
4*5*x*y*y*y*y
You cancel out the numbers that
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Question 65373This question is from textbook Beginning Algebra
: Write each fraction in simplest form:
-15x^3y^3
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-20xy^4
This is how I thought it should be done:
3*5*x*x*x*y*y*y
4*5*x*y*y*y*y
You cancel out the numbers that you can cancel which is 5 and then cancel out the letters that are equal which is 1 X and 3 Y's. This leaves you with the top efraction of:
3x^2 and the bottom fraction of 4y
The answer being :
3x^2
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4y
Is this correct? Thank you for helping me out :-) This question is from textbook Beginning Algebra
You can put this solution on YOUR website! That is a good way of thinking about this problem. Don't forget that both your original terms had a negative sign at the front as well so you need to put a (-1) into each of your sets of factors and you would be able to cancel them out as well.
So yes your answer is correct.
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