Precalculus Examples

$x^{- 3} y^{5}$

Step 1

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

$\frac{1}{x^{3}} y^{5}$

Step 2

Combine $\frac{1}{x^{3}}$ and $y^{5}$ .

$\frac{y^{5}}{x^{3}}$