Isn't simplified

This is the Question: x^-2 / y

My Answer: y / X^-2

And it's INCORRECT?! I'm confused, how do you simplify that question any further?
Please help and a BIG THANK YOU in advance.

Anytime you have a degree to the negative power, that means the variable is really 1/whatever the thing is. Simplified means you need all degrees to be positive.

So x^-2 is really 1/x^2 (not x^-2, by moving it down you make it positive).

Your y variable has a power of positive 1- it is positive, so you don't do anything to it (if it were negative, you'd take it to the top, but it's positive so don't do anything).

You end up with 1/y(x^2)
1 on the numerator, every variable in the denominator.


**P.S. Cunning is wrong. The y has no negative variable, so you don't move it anywhere, it stays just where it is. Since it is in the denominator, you leave it in the denominator. Only variables with negative exponents switch; regardless of what else is happening, if it has a positive exponent, it stays.

That's usually mistaken.
x⁻² / y simplified is not y / x⁻²

Yes, you should have it in reciprocal form but take note that your exponent transferred now into the denominator would now be positive. Therefore, the correct one would be:
y / x² for your simplified form.

....but it's not a question!