A group of 6p people are renting a vacation house together the price of the rental is 3p to the 2nd power if they split the cost evenly what is each members share of the price?
so we just do cost/number of people=cost per 1 person so (6p)/(3p^2) remember that you can split it up and make ones [tex] \frac{6p}{3p^{2}} [/tex]=[tex] \frac{6}{3p} [/tex] times [tex] \frac{p}{p} [/tex]=[tex] \frac{2}{1p} [/tex] times [tex] \frac{p}{p} [/tex] times [tex] \frac{3}{3} [/tex]=[tex] \frac{2}{1p} [/tex] times 1 times 1=2/p
easy way is remember that (x^m)/(x^n)=x^(m-n) so (6p)(3p^2)=6/(3p=2/p=2p^-1
