Question

explain in your own words how to construct a perfect square trinomial, a difference of two squares and/or a polynomial with a common factor. In other words, if you were teaching a math class, how would you construct problems to practice one or more of those skills?

Choose one operation (addition, subtraction, multiplication or division) and give an example of that operation on fractions and on rational expressions (you may select an example from Chapter 6 of the text or your MML problem set). Alternatively, you may choose to work with equations containing fractions and equations containing rational expressions. Explain how the procedures are the same and/or different for the two examples.

You have learned several ways to solve quadratic equations – factoring, the square root method, completing the square and the quadratic formula. Pick one method and describe when it is and is not appropriate to use that particular method. Include an example of a problem that is easily solved using your chosen method and one that would be easier solved using a different method.

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