Question

AUTO GOLD MEDAL FOR ANSWER. walk me through memory lane please.

for this one I kind of forgot the steps.
Write in simplest form without brackets: (-3a^2/b^3)-2


(5/2)^-3 This is dealing with radicals, no?

also these ones as well:

Write these in single powers of 2

1/32
wouldn't that be 2^-5?

8 x 2^t

that would be, 2^3 x 2^t so.. 2^3+t?

Answer 1

-3a^2/b^3 -2

Answer 2

@tallsparton But what is it in simplest form?

Answer 3

:0

Answer 4

@SolomonZelman help please sir

Answer 5

@ganeshie8 help pls

Answer 6

Answer it please, people .-.

Answer 7

@Auxuris you are my only hope xD

Answer 8

well, the first one, i need to clarify something
is the negative two outside the bracket just -2 or ^-2?

idk what are radicals but i'm assuming they're something like surds/indices
then yes

also the 1/32 is correct, yes its 2^-5
you know why right?

and the last one is correct too :3

Answer 9

@Auxuris ahh yeash! It is ^-2, my bad. But for 1/32 it is ^-5 because 2^5 = 32 so to make it 1/32 it just needs to be negative. :D

But the first one is really hard.

But radicals is the one with the square root sign :0 do you know how to put it in simplest form? :D

Answer 10

surds then

radicals:
simplest form follows a simple series of steps
first, divide and see if you can get one number that is a square

for example
√80
at one glance, you'd get
=√4 x √20
=2√20

but also notice that it can be further simplified again
=2√20
=2(√4)(√5)
giving you
=4√5

and notice also that if you had thought further into the √80 at the start, you would've gotten
√80
=√16√5
giving you again,
=4√5

that's the basics of radicals


but in actuality, i think your question is not radicals
it deals only with powers so use the rules you used previously for the other two equations below to solve it



can you simplify it further? (: