How do you simplify the expression $\frac{a^5b^4}{a^3b^2}$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-06-23T19:12:17

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Use this rule for exponents to simplify the $a$ and $b$ terms:

$x^color(red)(a)/x^color(blue)(b) = x^(color(red)(a)-color(blue)(b))$

$(a^color(red)(5)b^color(red)(4))/(a^color(blue)(3)b^color(blue)(2)) => a^(color(red)(5)-color(blue)(3))b^(color(red)(4)-color(blue)(2)) => a^2b^2$

How do you simplify the expression \frac{a^5b^4}{a^3b^2}\frac{a^5b^4}{a^3b^2}?