Question

10x^8y^4________-6x^4y^5

Answer 1

`(10x^8y^4)/(-6x^4y^5)`

To simplify this, we can re-write the equation

`\frac{10}{-6\text{ }}\text{ x}\frac{x^8}{x^4\text{ }}\text{ x}(y^4)/(y^5)`

Appplying laws of indices

`\begin{gathered} (-5)/(3)\text{ X x}^(8-4)Xy^{4\text{ - 5}} \\ (-5)/(3)x^4y^(-1) \\ \\ \end{gathered}`

This can be expressed as:

`\begin{gathered} (-5)/(3)(x^4)/(y)^{} \\ \Rightarrow(-5x^4)/(3y) \end{gathered}`