document.write( "Question 23065: X^2+2/3x Can someone help me?? \n" ); document.write( "
Algebra.Com's Answer #11580 by AnlytcPhil(1806)\"\" \"About 
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X^2+2/3x Can someone help me?? \r\n" );
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document.write( "Is the problem\r\n" );
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document.write( "x2 + 2\r\n" );
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document.write( "  3x\r\n" );
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document.write( "  ?\r\n" );
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document.write( "If so you must type it (x2 + 2)/(3x)\r\n" );
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document.write( "As you have typed it would be read\r\n" );
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document.write( "      2\r\n" );
document.write( "x2 +  - x\r\n" );
document.write( "      3\r\n" );
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document.write( "In typing a mathematical expression on one line, if a numerator or a\r\n" );
document.write( "denominator contains more than one letter or one number (it can include\r\n" );
document.write( "an exponent BTW) then that entire numerator or denominator MUST be\r\n" );
document.write( "placed within parentheses to indicate where the numerator or denominator\r\n" );
document.write( "begins and ends. \r\n" );
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document.write( "I will assume you meant:\r\n" );
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document.write( "x2 + 2\r\n" );
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document.write( "  3x\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then since the numerator contains two terms, you will separate it into\r\n" );
document.write( "two fractions. First write down two lines with a sign between them.\r\n" );
document.write( "Use the same sign between them that the numerator terms have between them:\r\n" );
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document.write( "---- + ----\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now place the two terms on top of the lines:\r\n" );
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document.write( " x2      2\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now place the same denominator under each line:\r\n" );
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document.write( " x2      2\r\n" );
document.write( "---- + ----\r\n" );
document.write( " 3x     3x\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now the first fraction has a 1 exponent understood in the denominator:\r\n" );
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document.write( " x2      2\r\n" );
document.write( "---- + ----\r\n" );
document.write( " 3x1    3x\r\n" );
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document.write( "Subtract the exponents of x (larger minus snaller) and place the result\r\n" );
document.write( "where the larger exponent was before (in the numerator).  That is, you\r\n" );
document.write( "subtract the exponents of x2 and x1, getting x1, and place this x1 in\r\n" );
document.write( "the numerator because that's where the larger exponent, 2, was before.\r\n" );
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document.write( " x1      2\r\n" );
document.write( "---- + ----\r\n" );
document.write( "  3     3x\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then you can erase the 1 exponent in the left numerator\r\n" );
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document.write( " x      2\r\n" );
document.write( "--- + ----\r\n" );
document.write( " 3     3x\r\n" );
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document.write( "That's the way to leave the answer.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Edwin\r\n" );
document.write( "AnlytcPhil@aol.com
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