SOLUTION: (2√5-3√2) / (2√5+3√2) ..rationalize the numerator i cant seem to do .. help will be appreciated !!
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Put parentheses around it like this:
Form the conjugate of whichever you want to rationalize.
In this case the numerator. The numerator is ,
It's conjugate is gotten by changing the sign of the second term.
So its conjugate is .
Now you put that over itself, like this and put it in
parentheses:
Now you multiply these together:
Now you FOIL out the tops and the bottoms:
The middle two terms on top cancel:
And the two terms add together on the bottom:
Now we know the square roots of 25 and 4 so we get
Factor 2 out of the bottom:
Cancel the 2's:
Now the numerator is rational, because it doesn't
contain any square roots.
Edwin