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document.write( " Please simplify the expression,if possible. State the excluded values,if any.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "   w^2 + 4w + 4 / 2w^2 -8.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Please simplify the expression,if possible. State the excluded values,if any.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "   w^2 + 4w + 4 / 2w^2 -8.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "  Thank you.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The previous tutor Alan read your expression by his way.\r\n" );
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document.write( "I will read it by another way (since your writing is, actually, ambigous, which is VERY BAD !):\r\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=%28w%5E2+%2B+4w+%2B+4%29%2F%28+2w%5E2+-8%29 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"%28w%5E2+%2B+4w+%2B+4%29%2F%28+2w%5E2+-8%29\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" > = <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=%28w%2B2%29%5E2%2F%282%2A%28w%5E2-4%29%29 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"%28w%2B2%29%5E2%2F%282%2A%28w%5E2-4%29%29\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" > = <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=%28w%2B2%29%5E2%2F%282%2A%28w%2B2%29%2A%28w-2%29%29 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"%28w%2B2%29%5E2%2F%282%2A%28w%2B2%29%2A%28w-2%29%29\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" > = <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=%28%28w%2B2%29%2Across%28%28w%2B2%29%29%29%2F%282%2Across%28%28w%2B2%29%29%2A%28w-2%29%29 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"%28%28w%2B2%29%2Across%28%28w%2B2%29%29%29%2F%282%2Across%28%28w%2B2%29%29%2A%28w-2%29%29\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" > = <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=%28w%2B2%29%2F%282%2A%28w-2%29%29 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"%28w%2B2%29%2F%282%2A%28w-2%29%29\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" >.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Next time use parentheses systematically and properly when posting formulas to this site.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<U>Comment from student</U>: Ms.Ikleyn: I am copying the problem exactly as stated in the textbook. w^2 + 4w +4 -------------- <BR>\n" );
document.write( "Will you please explain how I should have expressed the problem to Alan and 2w^2 -8 to you. <BR>\n" );
document.write( "This would help me correctly express future problems. Thank you.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<U>My response</U>: In textbooks, the publishers use typography tools to represent fractions (for example), therefore you see fractions<BR>\n" );
document.write( "as the fractions in textbooks.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "This site HAS NO such tools, therefore, if you copy the formulas \"blindly\", \"as is\", \"as you see it\", their appearance in this site goes out.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "To support the required appearance, the people who post formulas (like fractions) should/must use PARENTHESES, <BR>\n" );
document.write( "even although these parentheses absent in the original text.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "For example, regarding your formulas, there are two possible readings:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "a)  w^2 + 4w + 4 / 2w^2 -8,   and\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "b) (w^2 + 4w + 4) /(2w^2 -8).\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Do you see the difference ?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "It is what I am talking about.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "HAPPY LEARNING !!\r<BR>\n" );
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