SOLUTION: Can you help me to simplify rational expressions. I can't figure out where to start and what order to go in. Thanks for all your help
Simplify...
x-1 x^4-1 x^2-1
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Question 238772: Can you help me to simplify rational expressions. I can't figure out where to start and what order to go in. Thanks for all your help
Simplify...
x-1 x^4-1 x^2-1
____ x ______x ________ (this is all one problem)
x^2+1 (x-1)^2 x^4-2x^2+1
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x-1 x^4-1 x^2-1
____ x ______x ________ (this is all one problem)
x^2+1 (x-1)^2 x^4-2x^2+1
:
Factor:
* *
:
Cancel out the (x^2+1)'s
(x-1) * *
:
Cancel out the (x^2-1)
(x-1) * *
:
Cancel out the (x-1)'s
1 *
:
we can factor (x^2-1)
:
Cancel x+1
is all we have left, could you follow what we did here?
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