Algebra Examples

$- 3^{- 1} x^{- 1}$

Step 1

Rewrite the expression using the negative exponent rule $b^{- n} = \frac{1}{b^{n}}$ .

$- \frac{1}{3} x^{- 1}$

Step 2

Rewrite the expression using the negative exponent rule $b^{- n} = \frac{1}{b^{n}}$ .

$- \frac{1}{3} \cdot \frac{1}{x}$

Step 3

Multiply $\frac{1}{x}$ by $\frac{1}{3}$ .

$- \frac{1}{x \cdot 3}$

Step 4

Move $3$ to the left of $x$ .

$- \frac{1}{3 x}$