SOLUTION: How is adding radical expressions similar to adding polynomial expressions?
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Question 126166: How is adding radical expressions similar to adding polynomial expressions?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let's say you had the radical expression
Notice how we have the common term . So we can combine like terms
Factor out the common term
Add
Rearrange the terms
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This is the same as something like
which is the sum of two polynomials (namely and )
Factor out the common term x
Add
Rearrange the terms
Notice how we followed the same steps in both examples. So this shows that adding radicals and polynomials have a lot of similarities.
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