Question

how would you simplify: 8 / (-1)^2 - 1? Would it be 8/0?

Answer 1

Is (-1)^2-1 all in the denominator?

Answer 2

yes

Answer 3

Then yes, but......

Answer 4

but what?

Answer 5

I can't imagine a situation where they would let you have 8/0 in a problem. In any event, if you wrote it correctly, then that is the answer.

Answer 6

the answer says that it is 8/2, but i don't know how they got that..

Answer 7

Then somewhere in writing the expression in the question, you wrote it incorrectly.

Re write it please. Draw it if you have to.