This week in pre-calculus 11, we continued to learn about radical expressions. What I would like to focus on for this blog post is adding radical expressions.

There are four steps to adding radical expressions which are as follows:

1. Determine the lowest common denominator.
2. Rewrite each fraction as an equivalent.
3. Combine numerators.
4. Reduce if possible.

For example:

 

 

 

And last but not least, you identify the discriminants which for this expression is m cannot equal -3 or 4.