Inverse Laplace Transform homework

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Homework Statement



1/s^5

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I was thinking I need to use n!/s^n+1

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But n would then be 4, so n! will be 24. Not sure what to do?
 
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n!, or in this case 4!= 24, is a constant!

1/s5= (1/24)(4!/s4+1)
 
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