Question

Can you please let me know if I have worked this problem correctly:

425x11^y-7^z / 560x14^y-5^z-16

3y-2^ / 4x3^z-15^

I am not sure this is correct because we shouldn't have any negative exponents in our final answer.

Thank you

Answer 1

Your notation is not acceptable

did you mean y^11 instead of 11^y ?
is x a variable or a multiplication sign ?

The way you typed it we are dividing by only 560,
you will need brackets otherwise.

in your answer, -2^ and -15^ are meaningless.

Answer 2

this is how the question reads on my homework...I apologize for the confusion.

425X11^Y-7^Z
____________
560X14^Y-5^Z-16^

X to the 11th power....Y to -7th power
X to the 14th power....Y to -5th power
The answer is not supposed to have negatives in it. So, would i just divide 425/560 to get 3/4 and then subtract the exponents?