w^3/w^2y^3

Question

simplify the expression

Answer 1

Do you mean this?

 

   w³

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w²y³

 

If so, then see that there are powers of w in both the numerator and the denominator.  You can cancel some of them out, by dividing the numerator and the denominator by the same thing.  (As long you multiply or divide both the numerator and the denominator by the same thing, you leave the value unchanged.)

 

But you can't do anything to simplify the y³ term, because there is no y in the numerator.

 

So divide both by w², and that gives you:

 

   w³/w²

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(w²/w²)y³

 

= w/y³