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by **Pat Oliver** on Mon May 04, 2009 6:19 am

Please help! I need to multiply and simplify 7a^7/5p^2 - 25p^6/49a :?:

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by **stapel_eliz** on Mon May 04, 2009 11:21 am

Pat Oliver wrote:...multiply and simplify 7a^7/5p^2 - 25p^6/49a

What you've posted means the following:

. . . . . $\frac{7a^2}{5p^2}\, -\, \frac{25p^6}{49a}$

But this is a subtraction, not a multiplication. :oops:

Please reply with corrections. Thank you!

by **Martingale** on Mon May 04, 2009 3:32 pm

$\frac{7a^2}{5p^2}\cdot \frac{-25p^6}{49a}$

I imagine Pat wanted this

$\frac{7a^2}{5p^2}\cdot \frac{-25p^6}{49a}$

maybe??

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