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How does it become this

Date Posted: 4 years ago
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Eric Nicholas K
Eric Nicholas K
4 years ago
They clearly jumped step there.

The conjugate of ./15 - ./3 is ./15 + ./3.

We introduce this to the denominator to fight the existing term to make the denominator free of square roots, while we introduce the same term to the numerator to maintain equality.

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Tiong Shan Kai
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Need to know that a^2-b^2 = (a-b)(a+b)