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Math Tutorial 7.5 - Rationalising the Denominator

There are 2 lessons in this math tutorial covering Rationalising the Denominator. The tutorial starts with an introduction to Rationalising the Denominator and is then followed with a list of the separate lessons, the tutorial is designed to be read in order but you can skip to a specific lesson or return to recover a specific math lesson as required to build your math knowledge of Rationalising the Denominator. you can access all the lessons from this tutorial below.


In this Math tutorial, you will learn:

  • How to multiply brackets containing surds?
  • How to use special algebraic identities to write expressions containing surds in a simple way?
  • What does 'rationalising the denominator' mean?
  • How to rationalise the denominator of a fraction if it contains only a surd and nothing else?
  • How to rationalise the denominator of a fraction if it contains only a surd multiplied by a number.
  • How to rationalise the denominator of a fraction if it contains a binomial?
  • How to rationalise the denominator when an entire fraction is inside a root?

Introduction

This tutorial is about rationalising the denominator. This means you are going to learn how to get rid of roots when they are in the denominator of a fraction. However, first, it is worth explaining what happens when two or more brackets containing surds are multiplied to each other. Knowing this, will be helpful in a better understanding of denominator's rationalisation. Thus, in a certain sense, the first part of this tutorial is a continuation of the previous tutorial, especially its concluding part.

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Tutorial IDMath Tutorial TitleTutorialVideo
Tutorial		Revision
Notes		Revision
Questions
7.5Rationalising the Denominator
Lesson IDMath Lesson TitleLessonVideo
Lesson
7.5.1Multiplying Brackets containing Surds
7.5.2Rationalising the Denominator

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