Simple question. Is $[x^(-1/2)][ x^(1/2)]= 1$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-06-24T17:33:25

Yes

Recall that if we have two exponents, $x^a$ and $x^b$ , their product is given by $x^(a+b)$ .

Since we have the same base, we can just add the exponents.

$x^(-1/2+1/2)=color(steelblue)(x^0=1)$

This does indeed evaluate to $1$ .

Hope this helps!

Simple question. Is [x^(-1/2)][ x^(1/2)]= 1[x^(-1/2)][ x^(1/2)]= 1?