SOLUTION: 1 minus square root of 7 on the numerator divided by 3 plus square root of 7 on the demoninator. Can you please go through the steps to rationalize the denominator in the problem.

Question 153907: 1 minus square root of 7 on the numerator divided by 3 plus square root of 7 on the demoninator. Can you please go through the steps to rationalize the denominator in the problem. Thank-you very much!
Answer by nerdybill(7384) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

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The strategy is to get rid of all square root symbols in the denominator. Do this by first multiplying by:
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So, we have:

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Performing "FOIL" on the denominator:

Reducing the denominator:

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Performing "FOIL" on the numerator:

Reducing the numerator:

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Finally, we can reduce it to (by dividing each term in the numerator by 2):

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