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Post by Zangief on Sept 28, 2007 8:25:33 GMT -8
I respectfully disagree. True simplified form does not have radicals in the denominator. But that is neither here nor there, people have certain preferences, and I guess it did just say to express as a single quotient. I used to hate it when you would do 2 pages of problems like that and then you would get marked off for one simplification step that you did or didn't do. That is so frustrating.
Kevin, I hope you at least got some credit for the solution.
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Post by SpartanProject2 on Sept 29, 2007 18:33:49 GMT -8
that wasnt for me..it was for danceinyoundapants which is my gf and i wanted to see if i could learn that stuff to help her out..but its to complicated for me to learn in 1 night. to many pages for 1 problem lol.
thanks to all who took their time to solve it ;D
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Post by Nobody on Sept 29, 2007 20:40:12 GMT -8
I dont get it Zan. In my high school teachers used to hate it if you left a radical in the denominator. But now in college they don't really care as long as it is correct. I never really asked my instructors because i did not care. But why do you think they stress to get rid of the radical in the denominator. Personally, I think it just makes the simplified form much nastier.
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Post by Capn Spanky on Sept 30, 2007 10:07:25 GMT -8
that's mostly because the teachers want you to understand concepts and how to do them in High School. By the time you're in college, you're expected to know alot of that stuff, so the teacher doesn't worry about it as much.
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Post by Zangief on Sept 30, 2007 15:09:43 GMT -8
Spanky's right, since you bring it up, it was a high school thing, professor's never cared about it in college.
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Post by Caesar on Sept 30, 2007 22:29:26 GMT -8
Fuck Calc 2.
That's all I have to say now that I'm a big bad college boy....heh.
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Post by danceinyoundapants on Oct 4, 2007 16:52:55 GMT -8
Yep that homework i had was online. Our teachers don't grade anything...EVERYTHING is online. It's extremely unhelpful :\
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Post by Nobody on Oct 4, 2007 18:48:38 GMT -8
Fuck Calc 2. That's all I have to say now that I'm a big bad college boy....heh. Your in for a treat my friend. Just wait until you get to the series and sequence chapter. That will seriously mess you up. |
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Post by killr on Oct 4, 2007 19:13:09 GMT -8
I dont get it Zan. In my high school teachers used to hate it if you left a radical in the denominator. But now in college they don't really care as long as it is correct. I never really asked my instructors because i did not care. But why do you think they stress to get rid of the radical in the denominator. Personally, I think it just makes the simplified form much nastier. Back in the day, before calculators, everybody did division by hand and dividing with a radical in the denominator is much harder than dividing with a radical in the numerator. SO... maybe your high school teachers were old school. |
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