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)".

Step  1  :

Equation at the end of step  1  :

Step  2  :

Equation at the end of step  2  :

Step  3  :

                 1
 Divide  28  by  —
                 2

Multiplying exponents :

 3.1    2⁸  multiplied by  2¹   = 2^{(8 + 1)} = 2⁹

Final result :

  29