## anonymous one year ago how do i simplify this?

1. anonymous

Simplify what?

2. anonymous

$\frac{ x ^{1/4} }{ x ^{1/14} }$

3. anonymous

@perl can you please use complete sentences so i can understand to do it because i have more expressions like these i need to simplify

4. anonymous

Or you can get rid of the fractions by multiplying them by their reciprocals

5. anonymous

can you please show me step by step? @Jcameron

6. anonymous

i wasn't there when the teacher was explaining this please help

7. anonymous

so you multiply 1/4 with 4/1 multiply 1/14 with 14/1 what do you get?

8. anonymous

you should end up with a whole number

9. anonymous

4/4= 1 14/14 = 1

10. anonymous

x/x

11. anonymous

so you end up with x

12. anonymous

does that make sense??

13. anonymous

because if you divide 1x with 1x you get 1

14. anonymous

so is the final answer x or x/x?

15. anonymous

the final answer should be x

16. anonymous

okay thank you so much that actually makes sense like for some reason i axpected it to be harder thats why my mind was confused

17. anonymous

Do you understand? I know I was kind of sloppy with my explanation

18. anonymous

No problem :)

19. anonymous

no i totally get it