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Complex Rational Expressions
Muse Among Men
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I am awful at math. So, so awful. I'm taking algebra 2 right now and floundering. We are working on complex rational expressions and I got the lesson the first day (yesterday), but today? Eehhh . . .The examples in the book aren't very helpful because they are just examples and don't tell you how to do it, and anything I've found online is dealing with very easy problems even I could do or are using a method different than what we were using.
For example: x^2 - y^2 divided by xy all over x-y divided by y. Now, I checked, and the answer is supposed to be x=y over y. What? I've done that same problem 3 or 4 times and still haven't gotten the correct answer.
Basically I am trying to get you guys to do my homework.
For example: x^2 - y^2 divided by xy all over x-y divided by y. Now, I checked, and the answer is supposed to be x=y over y. What? I've done that same problem 3 or 4 times and still haven't gotten the correct answer.
Basically I am trying to get you guys to do my homework.
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(x^2-y^2)/xy / (x-y)/y
factor (x^2-y^2) into (x+y)(x-y), and multiply the numerator by the inverse of the denominator
= (x+y)(x-y)/xy * y/(x-y)
multiply
= (x+y)(x-y)y / xy(x-y)
cancel
= (x+y)/x
(edit: wait, don't you only need the LCD for addition/subtraction?)