How do you find the quotient $(-x)^5/(-x)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2017-02-12T13:33:27

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We will use these two rules of exponents to solve this problem:

$a = a^color(blue)(1)$

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

$(-x)^5/(-x) = (-x)^5/(-x)^color(blue)(1) = (-x)^(color(red)(5)-color(blue)(1)) = (-x)^4$

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