The problem
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why do you put a one over the 5? is it because the 5 is the same base?
Answer provided by our tutors
We need to reduce this fraction to the lowest terms.
This can be done by dividing out those factors that appear both in the numerator 5^(5/6) and in the denominator 5^(3/2).
In our example, this is 5^(5/6).
Since we divide up and down by 5^(5/6) .
5^(5/6) divided by 5^(5/6) is 1.
5^(3/2) divided by 5^(5/6) is 5^((3/2) - (5/6)).