Help Me, please.
Exercise: Perform the operation indicated. Express the results with fractional exponents and with no denominators.
a-2 + a-1b - b2 / a2b-1
This is very similar to all of your other postings over the last few days...are you catching on yet??????
This one is (assuming there is a parentheses around the numerator) ....
a^-2 / a^2b^-1 + a^-1b / a^2b^-1 - b^2 / a^2b^-1
b / a^4 + b^2 / a^3 - b^3 /a^2
a^-2 b ( a^-2 + b a^-1 - b^2)
Manuel says that this is actually
a-2 + a-1b - b2/ (a2b-1 )
So we have
a-2 + a-1b - b2* b * a-2
a-2 + a-1b - b3*a-2 factor out a-2
a-2 [ 1 + ab - b3 ]