Dividing Rational Numbers

Dividing Rational Numbers

Rational Numbers are the most interesting and important section in number system. Sometimes it becomes very difficult to solve a rational expression. So today we are going to understand the basic concepts of rational numbers and how we can solve the problems. Now the first question arises is what is a rational number? Rational number is an expression which can be written as a fraction a/b. Here 'a' is the numerator and 'b' is the denominator. The most important thing to understand is that denominator can never be zero(0). Let's take an example: The numbers 5/3 and -6/11 are rational number. A number 5 is also an expression : 5/1 = 5 and any number in decimal form also an expression for example: 3.33 is a rational number : 3.33 = 333/100. Some theorems which tells about Rational expressions: First: Any integer is a rational number. For example a number n = n/1. Second: The representation of rational number as a fraction is not unique. Like 3/4 = 6/8 = -9/-12. Third : Every nonzero rational number or a rational that do not contain a 0 has a representation in lowest term. Closure property of rational number is shown as: x/y + a/b = xb + ay / yb and a/b divide c/d = ad/bc. a/b x c/d = ac/bd. For simplifying rational expressions, we must need to have a good factoring skills. It requires two steps in solving a rational expressions. Factor the numerator and denominator is the first step and the second step is divide all common factors that the numerator and denominator have. Know More About :- Types of Polynomials

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Dividing rational expressions is the most difficult part as it requires key skills. Now we are going to learn how can we divide a rational expression: 12/5 divide by 9/5 then we need to take a reciprocal of 9/5 . The reciprocal of 9/5 is 5/9. Multiply 12/5 with the reciprocal. 12/5 x 5/9 = 12/9 = 4/3. Sometimes solving a rational expression becomes a very hard task so for solving this, various online math solvers are available which reduces the human efforts and shows the result with each step. This will help to understand the rational problems in a better manner. First we need to know what the reciprocal of a rational number is. If the numerator and denominator of a rational number are replaced by each other, the new number is called the reciprocal of it. That is, for two integers a and b different from zero, is the reciprocal of . For example, is the reciprocal of and is the reciprocal of . If you have a whole number, such as 2, it can be written as . The reciprocal of would be . A "rational expression" is a polynomial fraction, and anything you could do with regular fractions you can do with rational expressions. However, since there are variables in rational expressions, there are some additional considerations. When you dealt with fractions, you knew that the fraction could have any whole numbers for the numerator and denominator, as long as you didn't try to divide by zero. When dealing with rational expressions, you will often need to evaluate the expression, and it can be useful to know which values would cause division by zero, so you can avoid these x-values. So probably the first thing you'll do with rational expressions is find their domains. Find the domain of 3/x. The domain is all values that x is allowed to be. Since I can't divide by zero (division by zero isn't allowed), I need to find all values of x that would cause division by zero. The domain will then be all other x-values. When is this denominator equal to zero? When x = 0. Then the domain is "all x not equal to zero". Determine the domain of x/3. The domain doesn't care what is in the numerator of a rational expression. The domain is only influenced by the zeroes of the denominator. Will "3" ever equal zero? Of course not. Since the denominator will never equal zero, no matter what value x is, then there are no forbidden values for this rational expression, and x can be anything. So the domain is "all x". Give the domain of the following expression: To find the domain, I'll ignore the "x + 2" in the numerator (since the numerator does not cause division by zero) and instead I'll look at the denominator. I'll set the denominator equal to zero, and solve. The x-values in the solution will be the x-values which would cause division by zero. The domain will then be all other xvalues. By factoring the quadratic, I found the zeroes of the denominator. Read More About :- Rational Numbers and Irrational Numbers

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