Solution - Power equations

Reformatting the input :

Changes made to your input should not affect the solution:

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

Step  1  :

 1.1     16 = 24

(16)^-1 = (2⁴)^(-1) = (2)^(-4)

Equation at the end of step  1  :

  10 • (2)(-4)

Step  2  :

Dividing exponents :

 2.1    2¹   divided by   2⁴   = 2^{(1 - 4)} = 2^(-3) = ¹/_2³

Final result :

  5           
  — = 0.62500 
  8