Solution - Simplification or other simple results

Reformatting the input :

Changes made to your input should not affect the solution:

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

(2): ".5" was replaced by "(5/10)".

Step  1  :

            1
 Simplify   —
            2

Equation at the end of step  1  :

           1
  (16-1) • —
           2

Step  2  :

 2.1     16 = 24

(16)^-1 = (2⁴)^(-1) = (2)^(-4)

Equation at the end of step  2  :

            1
  (2)(-4) • —
            2

Step  3  :

Multiplying exponents :

 3.1    2⁴  multiplied by  2¹   = 2^{(4 + 1)} = 2⁵

Final result :

   1           
  —— = 0.03125 
  32