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OpenStudy (mendicant_bias):

Not sure what to do with this: Eliminate negative exponents and simplify the expression:

OpenStudy (mendicant_bias):

(Posting the problem in a moment.)

OpenStudy (mendicant_bias):

\[(3a ^{-1}b ^{2})^{-2}(a ^{-4}b)^{-1}\]

OpenStudy (mendicant_bias):

What I did was: \[(\frac{ 1 }{ 9 }a ^{2}b ^{-4})(a ^{4}b ^{-1})\]...\[\frac{ a ^{6}b ^{-5} }{ 9 }\]... Not sure where to go from there.

OpenStudy (precal):

|dw:1358390606256:dw|you are done

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