Question

Question #d6549

Answer 1

`x^4`

Explanation:

`x^5 * x^-1 = x^4`

This is so because when two numbers are multiplied (as shown above) the exponents are added. However, if a number is multiplied like this:

`(x^2)^5`

Then the answer would be `x^10` because the numbers would be multiplied.

Hope that helped!