How do you simplify $5^3/5^2$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-11-11T18:14:50

When exponents are rising like terms you can add or subtract them. In this case, when you are dividing, you subtract the exponents.

Giving you $5^1$ and when anything is raised to the power of $1$ it is simply that number.

If they were being multiplied then you would add the exponents giving you $5^5$

It is important to know what operation to carry out when given an equation, and this is a good start.

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