Find the slope of the line that passes through the points (5, 8) and (9, 4).
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The greatest common factor is 2
This is because we start by taking the largest factor that goes into both coefficients. Since the first coefficient is 2, we have to try 2 and 1. Since 2 is larger and goes into 36 evenly, we use that.
Then we use the smallest number of each variable. There are 4 r's in both equations. So, that is the number that we take. There are 2 s's in the first term, so we take that number.
the first step is to deal with the negative exponents, which causes numbers to go to the other side of the fraction
8x^{-9}+(-3x^{-3}y^{-2})(\frac{5}{x^6y^{-2}})
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now we can simplify the multiplied terms
Now that we have common bases, we can add the 2 fractions together to get