Introduction to Rational Expressions
Learning Objectives
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
- Simplify rational expressions.
- Multiply rational expressions.
- Divide rational expressions.
- Add and subtract rational expressions.
- Simplify complex rational expressions.
A pastry shop has fixed costs of $280 per week and variable costs of $9 per box of pastries. The shop’s costs per week in terms of x, the number of boxes made, is 280+9x. We can divide the costs per week by the number of boxes made to determine the cost per box of pastries.
x280+9x
Notice that the result is a polynomial expression divided by a second polynomial expression. In this section, we will explore quotients of polynomial expressions.Licenses & Attributions
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