Division of Algebraic Terms with Powers (2)

This worksheet is about the division of algebraic terms with powers.

Example

 Simplify:

Answer

Remember what 10a² and 15a³ mean and divide them.

We get:    

Each a from the top of the fraction will cancel out with an a from the bottom.

This gives us

which reduces by dividing top and bottom by 5 to

Remember that we can use other letters than a when we write algebraic terms - and that these have to be alike to cancel each other out.