SOLUTION: Please help.Reduce each rationalexpression to lowest terms. Assume that the variables represent only numbers for which the denominators are nonzero.
a^2-b^2/a-b
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Question 177024: Please help.Reduce each rationalexpression to lowest terms. Assume that the variables represent only numbers for which the denominators are nonzero.
a^2-b^2/a-b Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! a^2-b^2/a-b
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Factor where you can:
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[(a-b)(a+b)]/(a-b)
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Cancel the factor common to numerator and denominator:
= a+b
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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