My biggest mistake this week with Simplifying Rational Expressions was thinking that i could simplify it by dividing like terms without factoring the expression. Once i learned that you need to factor the expression before simplifying it made it a lot easier. the steps to Simplifying Rational Expressions are the following:
Step 1: Factor both sides of the expression to the most that you can
Step 2: The factors that are the same cancel out and you are left with a final answer
step 3: find the non permissable values
note: If the factors are different in terms of addition or subtraction (x-1/1-x) then you can not cancel them out yet.
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