Solution - Simplification or other simple results

Reformatting the input :

Changes made to your input should not affect the solution:

(1): "^-4" was replaced by "^(-4)".

Step  1  :

            1
 Simplify   —
            2

Equation at the end of step  1  :

  1
 (—)-4
  2

Step  2  :

Final result :

  24            
  —— = 16.00000 
  1