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4-22.
Simplify each of the following expressions. Be sure that your answer has no negative or fractional exponents.
Begin by rewriting the expression as
. Since
, the expression can be rewritten as .
The negative exponents mean you will be finding the reciprocals of the factors.
There are several ways to simplify this expression. Here is one:
or