Wednesday, 27 June 2007

Colourful Covers

Today's post is with regards to the topic on Partial Fractions.

One way of finding the unknown numerators in partial fractions is to use the cover-up rule, which I will demonstrate.

Note: the example used involves an improper fraction (numerator smaller than denominator) with distinct linear factors.
Linear meaning the highest power of x is only one, there is no x square or x cube.
Factors of a quadratic (or any other polynomial equation) in the case below, (x+2)(x-2) are factors of

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