SOLUTION: Simplify: PLEASE HELP ME Please help me, I've recived many different asweres for this problem and I'm not sure how to do it or which answer is correct. (16^-1 x^-4 y

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Question 95241: Simplify:
PLEASE HELP ME

Please help me, I've recived many different asweres for this problem and I'm not sure how to do it or which answer is correct.


(16^-1 x^-4 y612)^-3/4
This problem is: Parenthesis 16 raised to the negative 1, x raised to the ngative 4th y raised to the 12th, end of parenthesis. Outside of the parenthesis, the whole problem is raised to negative 3 over 4. The question asks to simplify this problem

Answer by scott8148(6628) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
you can distribute the outer exponent over the inner exponents

(16^(3/4))(x^3)(y^(-9)) ... 8(x^3)(y^(-9)) ... 8x%5E3%2Fy%5E9