How do you simplify $5n^-1$ and write it using only positive exponents?

Question

2079 views around the world

You can reuse this answer
Creative Commons License

Answer 1 · 2017-04-23T11:33:36

Use these rules of exponents to simplify and remove the negative exponents: $x^color(red)(a) = 1/x^color(red)(-a)$ and $a^color(red)(1) = a$

$5n^color(red)(-1) = 5/n^color(red)(- -1) = 5/n^1 = 5/n$

How do you simplify 5n^-15n^-1 and write it using only positive exponents?