Question

A group of 6p people are renting a vacation house together the price of the rental is 3p to the 2nd power if they split the cost evenly what is each members share of the price?

Answer 1

So we just do
cost/number of people=cost per 1 person
so
(6p)/(3p^2)
remember that you can split it up and make ones
$\frac{6p}{3p^{2}}$=$\frac{6}{3p}$ times $\frac{p}{p}$=$\frac{2}{1p}$ times $\frac{p}{p}$ times $\frac{3}{3}$=$\frac{2}{1p}$  times 1 times 1=2/p

easy way is
remember that
(x^m)/(x^n)=x^(m-n)
so
(6p)(3p^2)=6/(3p=2/p=2p^-1


each member pays 2/p