SOLUTION: Please help me solve this: x^5 / x^6. I attempted to combine the like terms but I am not completely sure how the division bracket affects the variables. Are they now different? Th

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Question 770327: Please help me solve this: x^5 / x^6. I attempted to combine the like terms but I am not completely sure how the division bracket affects the variables. Are they now different? Thank you.
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Please help me solve this: x^5 / x^6. I attempted to combine the like terms but I am not completely sure how the division bracket affects the variables. Are they now different?
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Equations are solved. This is not an equation.
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It can be simplified.
x%5E5%2Fx%5E6+=+x%5E5%2F%28%28x%5E5%29%2A%28x%5E1%29%29
Cancel the x^5
= 1%2Fx or x%5E-1