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04-10-2016
Mathematics

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(4xy)^-1

What happens to the variables and numbers when they are being multiplied by an exponent of negative 1?

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04-10-2016

\(x^{-m}= \frac{1}{x^m}\)

basically the reciprocal happens

this is because
x^3 for example=\(\frac{x*x*x}{1}\)=\(\frac{x*x*x*x}{x}\)

now if yo did x^-1, then that would be
\(\frac{1}{x}\)

so

\((4xy)^{-1}= \frac{1}{4xy}\)

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