Question #d6549

1 Answer
Dec 6, 2017

#x^4#

Explanation:

#x^5 * x^-1 = x^4#

This is so because when two numbers are multiplied (as shown above) the exponents are added. However, if a number is multiplied like this:

#(x^2)^5#

Then the answer would be #x^10# because the numbers would be multiplied.

Hope that helped!