Question

1/169=1/3 what's the exponent? how do i figure it out?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

We have been given an equation . We are asked to write the missing exponent for our given equation.

We can see that 169 is square of 13, so we can write left side of our equation as:

We can raise 1 to any power and answer will be same.

Raising 1 to 2nd power, we will get:

Since both numerator and denominator is raised to 2nd power, so we can raise to 2nd power as:

Therefore, our missing exponent is 2.