To rationalize the denominator when the denominator is the
difference of cube roots, you must use the factorization of
the difference of cubes formula.
But write the left side on the right and vice-versa, so you
can better see what to do:
Let A and B be the terms of the denominator:
,
Substituting into ,
Simplifying,
So as you can see from that, to rationalize the denominator,
you must multiply top and bottom by
which can be simplified a little:
We have just finished multiplying the bottom by that
and gotten the rational expression .
Now we must multiply the numerator, which is
by it too:
=
=
Combine like terms:
Now put this over the denominator which we rationalized
first:
Edwin