Marie is thinking of a number. She subtracts 5 from the number and then multiplying the result is -2. The result is 18. What num
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We have the sentence:
"X by the power of 5 times y to the power of 6 over 2 by the power of -2 times x by the power of 0times x by the power of 9"
Let's break it into parts.
"X by the power of 5 times y to the power of 6..."
This can be written as:
x^5*y^6
"... 2 by the power of -2 times x by the power of 0times x by the power of 9"
This can be written as:
2^(-2)*x^(0)*x^(9)
And we have the quotient between the first thing and the second thing, then the equation is:
And any number by the power of 0 is equal to 1, then:
x^0 = 1, then we can rewrite the equation as:
We can keep simplifying this.
We know that:
a^(-n) = (1/a)^(n)
Then:
2^(-2) = (1/2)^2 = 1/4
Then we get:
And we also know that:
a^n/a^m = a^(n - m)
Then:
And we can't simplify this anymore.