How do you simplify $m^5 \div m^3$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2017-10-16T23:35:42

$m^2$

The question here is $m^5 -: m^3$ .

This can be rewritten as:

$m^5/m^3$

Using properties of exponents we know that when we divided exponents of the same base we subtract the powers.

$m^5/m^3=m^2$

Or you can visualize it as:

$(cancel(mxxmxxmxx)(mxxm))/cancel(mxxmxxm)$

How do you simplify m^5 \div m^3m^5 \div m^3?