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[latent oxide]

i just need to confirm the steps that we would use to simplify this.
we're going to multiply for the inner and outside power, then multiply x^6x 1/2 .
final answer will be negative so we're going to flip it to a fraction to make it positive right?

[tall dirge]

yep

[latent oxide]

oki im getting my final ans as y ^1/3 over x^3

or

would it be

1/ x^3 y ^ 1/3

i think the second one

bc the whole thing was negative

[lavish rapids]

I thought you only flip it if the exponent itself is negative?

[tall dirge]

I think best way to start transform the expression

and then multiple xy by ½

honestly there's another way to solve this too

if you ever learned derivatives

[cyan veldt]

I think yes but either way its the fully simplified product

[low reef]

What is your expression equal to when x=y= 1 ?

$(- 1^6 1^{\frac{2}{3}})^{\frac{1}{2}}
= (-1)^{\frac{1}{2}}$

[chilly heron]

Daddy_314

[low reef]

And what is this equal to ?

Spoiler alert: it does not exist....