Solution - Power equations

Reformatting the input :

Changes made to your input should not affect the solution:

(1): "^-2" was replaced by "^(-2)".

Step  1  :

 1.1     10 = 2•5

(10)^-2 = (2•5)^(-2) = (2)^(-2) • (5)^(-2)

Equation at the end of step  1  :

  16 • ((2)(-2)•(5)(-2))

Step  2  :

Dividing exponents :

 2.1    2⁴   divided by   2²   = 2^{(4 - 2)} = 2²

Final result :

   4           
  —— = 0.16000 
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