ILLUSTRATING

RATIONAL
ALGEBRAIC
EXPRESSIONS
RATIONAL ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSION IS A QUOTIENT OF TWO POLYNOMIALS
PROVIDED THAT THE DENOMINATOR IS NOT EQUAL TO ZERO.
IT IS JUST LIKE FRACTION BUT WITH POLYNOMIALS
RESTRICTION IN A RATIONAL ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSION:

1. THE VARIABLE MUST NOT HAVE NEGATIVE EXPONENT.

2. THE VARIABLE MUST NOT HAVE A FRACTIONAL
EXPONENT.
3. THE VARIABLE MUST NOT BE RADICAND.
4. THE DENOMINATOR MUST NOT BE EQUAL TO ZERO
DOMAIN OF THE RATIONAL ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSION:

DOMAIN is the set of all possible values of the variables .

Always remember that any rational algebraic expression
cannot have a denominator of zero(0) because it will
make the expression ‘’undefined’’. Therefore , we need to
pay attention to what values of the variable/s in which
expression would make the denominator equal to zero.
These values cannot be included in the domain , so
they’re called excluded values.
 EXAMPLES OF HOW TO FIND THE
ZEROS OF THE DENOMINATOR AND
THEN RESTRICT THESE VALUES:
A.

  𝑥+ 8
𝑥 −9

SOLUTION:
x-9 =0 -zero product property
x=9 -solve for x

Answer:The domain is all real numbers except for

9.Our variable x cannot be equal to 9 because when
yo substitute 9 to the denominator of x-9 it will
make the denomitor equal to zero.
 REMINDER:

RULE IN SIMPLIFYING RATIONAL ALGEBRAIC

EXPRESSIONS
IF a,b and r are real numbers where b
The steps in simplifying rational expressions:

STEP1.Factor both the numerator and denominator of the

fraction .Use various Factoring technique to factor each
expression.

STEP2. Cancel out expressions in the numerator and

denominator that are the same.

STEP3. Rewrite any remainining expressions in the

numerator and denominator.
OPERATIONS ON RATIONAL ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSIONS:
• RATIONAL ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSION ARE JUST LIKE RATIONAL NUMBERS.
• IN ADDING/SUBTRACTING RATIONAL ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSIONS WITH
SIMILAR DENOMINATORS SIMPLY COPY THE COMMON DENOMINATOR THEN
ADD/SUBTRACT THE NUMERATORS,THEN SIMPLIFY.
• IN ADDING/SUBTRACTING RATIONAL ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSIONS WITH
DISSMILAR DENOMINATORS SIMPLY FIND THE LEAST COMMON
DENOMINATOR(LCD).NEXT,IS SOLVE FOR THE EQUIVALENT
FRACTIONS.SINCE THEY ARE ALREADY SIMILAR FRACTIONS THEN YOU CAN
PROCEED WITH RULE IN ADDING/SUBTRACTING SIMILAR RATIONAL
ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSION.THEN SIMPLIFY.
• IN MULTIPLYING ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSIONS,JUST MULTIPLY THE
NUMERATORS AND DENOMINATRS SEPERATELY AND THEN SIMPLIFY TO ITS
LOWEST TERM.
• IN DIVIDING RAIONAL ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSION ,FIRST COPY THE DEVIDEND
JEXT, GET THE RECIPROCAL OF THE DIVISOR THEN PROCEED TO THE RULE IN
MULTIPLYING RATIONAL ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSION
STEPS IN SOLVING WORD PROBLEMS:

• STEP 1.READ AND TRY TO ANALYZE THE PROBLEM.

• STEP 2. MAKE APRESENTATION
• STEP 3. MAKE AN ILLUSTRATION.
• STEP 4. COME UP WITH AN EQUATION.
• STEP 5.SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
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