Mrs. Hernandez spends 41.25 minutes delivering mail in a
neighborhood. It takes her 10
minutes to deliver mail to her first
five houses. After that, it takes Mrs.
Hernandez 1.25 minutes to deliver
mail to each of the remaining
houses. Determine how many
houses still need their deliveries
from Mrs. Hernandez.

the answer is:

the answer is:

to solve the problem, we need to remember the quotient of power property, it's defined by the following relation:

if we have a quotienf of powers that have the same base, we need to keep the same base and subtract the exponent of the denominator power to the exponent of the numerator power.

so, we are given the expression:

then, calculating we have:

hence, the answer is:

have a nice day!

mr. india