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!