Section 2.6 Rationalizing Radicals © Copyright all rights reserved to Homework depot: www.BCMath.ca
I) Review: Multiplying a binomial with it’s conjugate will eliminate all the radicals When we have a fraction with a radical in the denominator, we want to rationalize it by multiplying both the top and bottom by the conjugate of the denominator © Copyright all rights reserved to Homework depot: www.BCMath.ca
Ex: Simplify the following by rationalizing the denominator © Copyright all rights reserved to Homework depot: www.BCMath.ca
Ex: Simplify the following by rationalizing the denominator © Copyright all rights reserved to Homework depot: www.BCMath.ca
Ex: Simplify and Rationalize Rationalize each fraction separately Find the LCD so that you can add the fractions Combine the numerators (tops) when the bottom are the same © Copyright all rights reserved to Homework depot: www.BCMath.ca
Evaluate: © Copyright all rights reserved to Homework depot: www.BCMath.ca
Rationalize: © Copyright all rights reserved to Homework depot: www.BCMath.ca