I am doing some pre study/revision in maths before i take my next education steps and am working through a hefty engineering maths book from the beginning. The first chapter is a review of algebraic techniques using indices.
The question is to simplify this
\begin{align} \frac{2xy^2}{(2xy)^2} \end{align}
and the solution given is this
\begin{align} \frac{1}{2x} \end{align}
what are the intermediate steps to arrive at this solution?