Solution - Power equations

Reformatting the input :

Changes made to your input should not affect the solution:

(1): "^-4" was replaced by "^(-4)". 1 more similar replacement(s)

Step  1  :

             xy(-6)
 Simplify   ———————
            x(-4)y2

Dividing exponential expressions :

 1.1    x¹ divided by x^(-4) = x^{(1 - (-4))} = x⁵

Dividing exponential expressions :

 1.2    y^(-6) divided by y² = y^{((-6) - 2)} = y^(-8) = ¹/_y⁸

Final result :

  x5
  ——
  y8