Simplify ratio of exponential functions

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I was struggling to see how to simplify this ratio of exponentials as below:
$$\frac{\exp(-x_{i2}y – a_{i})}{\exp(-x_{i1}y – a_{i})} = \exp((x_{i1} – x_{i2})y)$$

Best Answer

Use the property that $\displaystyle \frac{e^a}{e^b}=e^{a-b}$.

Then, everything follows as such.

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