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This worksheet is about the division of algebraic terms with powers.
Example
Simplify:
| 10a2 |
| 15a3 |
Answer
Remember what 10a2 and 15a3 mean and divide them.
We get:
| 10 x |
| 15 x a x |
Each a from the top of the fraction will cancel out with an a from the bottom.
This gives us
| 10 |
| 15a |
which reduces by dividing top and bottom by 5 to
| 2 |
| 3a |
Remember that we can use other letters than a when we write algebraic terms - and that these have to be alike to cancel each other out.
