Question

9xy^3/18x^5 y^8?

Answer 1

Do you see a common factor in the coefficients?

Answer 2

ya

Answer 3

Divide that, what do you get?

Answer 4

Are you there @shivraj?

Answer 5

yep

Answer 6

9/(2*9)
1/2

Answer 7

so what would that be in the whole context of the equation?

Answer 8

1/2x^-4y^-5

Answer 9

oh wait wait, where'd we get that negative?
it should be 1/(2x^4y^5)

Answer 10

1/(2x^4y^5)

Answer 11

yeah. that's now your final answer, because there's nothing else to divide by. do you understand it?

Answer 12

so look at the coefficients first, unless you can factor it out. (but that's a totally different problem we don't need to worry about right now)