Not understanding the answer to a fractional expression

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$$\frac { 8r^{ 1/2 }s^{ -3 } }{ 2r^{ -2 }s^{ 4 } } $$

The first step I took was getting rid of the negative exponents:

$$\frac { 8r^{ 1/2 }2r^{ 2 } }{ s^{ 3 }s^{ 4 } } $$

Then I performed the multiplication in the numerator and denominator and got:

$$\frac { 16r^{ 5/2 } }{ s^{ 7 } } $$

Apparently, this is wrong. What mistake did I make?

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You forgot to take the reciprocal of $2$ in the denominator. So, the answer is $4r^{5/2}/s^7$.