aApplications and other algebra topics ask about complex numbers, series and sequences, determinants, permutations and combinations, fractions, and word problems.[translate] aAlgebraic operations includes simplifying rational algebraic expressions, factoring, expanding polynomials, and manipulating roots and ex...
Simplify[expr] performs a sequence of algebraic and other transformations on expr and returns the simplest form it finds. Simplify[expr, assum] does simplification using assumptions.
Product Rule Backwards for Simplifying We can use the reverse of the product rule to combine two different bases, THAT ARE BOTH TO THE SAME POWER, into a single bracketed item. The two different bases can be: two numbers, a number and a letter, or two letters; however it is required th...