Question

how do i simplify this?

Answer 1

Simplify what?

Answer 2

\[\frac{ x ^{1/4} }{ x ^{1/14} }\]

Answer 3

@perl can you please use complete sentences so i can understand to do it because i have more expressions like these i need to simplify

Answer 4

Or you can get rid of the fractions by multiplying them by their reciprocals

Answer 5

can you please show me step by step? @Jcameron

Answer 6

i wasn't there when the teacher was explaining this please help

Answer 7

so you multiply 1/4 with 4/1
multiply 1/14 with 14/1

what do you get?

Answer 8

you should end up with a whole number

Answer 9

4/4= 1
14/14 = 1

Answer 10

x/x

Answer 11

so you end up with x

Answer 12

does that make sense??

Answer 13

because if you divide 1x with 1x you get 1

Answer 14

so is the final answer x or x/x?

Answer 15

the final answer should be x

Answer 16

okay thank you so much that actually makes sense like for some reason i axpected it to be harder thats why my mind was confused

Answer 17

Do you understand? I know I was kind of sloppy with my explanation

Answer 18

No problem :)

Answer 19

no i totally get it