Question

What is the answer to 16a5 b3/8ab ?

Answer 1

Answer:

When we are dividing exponents, there is this rule:

$\frac{a^n}{a^m}=a^{(n-m)}$

So, in our case we have this:

$\frac{16a^5b^3}{8ab} = \frac{16}{8}a^{(5-1)}b^{(3-1)}$$=2a^4b^2$