Question

How do you simply this monomial

Answer 1

You can start by determining all common factors between the like terms (27 with 18; u with u; v with v).

Now, do 27 and 18 have common factors? Yes --> that would be the 9

You can simplify that term to
`-(3)/(2)`

Do
`u^2` and
`u^4` have common factors? Yes -->
`u^2`

You can simplify that term to
`(1)/(u^2)`

Do
`v^3` and
`v^5` have common factors? Yes -->
`v^3`

You can simplify that term to
`(1)/(v^2)`

As the final step, you can times all those final terms together to reach your answer as -
`-(3)/(2u^2v^2)`

Hope this helped a lot :)