#1, RE: Divison of powers
Posted by bluediamond on May-07-02 at 01:52 PM
In response to message #0
Well, by commutativity of multiplication, if ab = c, then axbx = cx. Thus, you can say 4515 = 1515315 and the problem reduces to 1515/315 which can be further reduced to 515. We could have obtained this directly by noting 1530 = 1515315515 = 4515515.Hope this helps, Dave
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