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document.write( "Write the 's as  so everything\r\n" );
document.write( "will be fractions:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Put parentheses around the top and bottom:\r\n" );
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document.write( "The LCD of all four denominators is .\r\n" );
document.write( "Put it over 1 and put parentheses around it, \r\n" );
document.write( "Then multiply top and bottom by that:\r\n" );
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document.write( "parentheses on the right:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Cancel the 's in the top left and the bottom right\r\n" );
document.write( "terms and erase the 's and we get\r\n" );
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document.write( "Remove the parentheses and we get:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Combining terms on top and bottom, we end up with\r\n" );
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