Directions: Fill in the blanks. (write your answer on the space provided.) 1. The least common denominator is he of the highest power of each of the denominator or the appearing in the denominator. except those for where p(x) and q(x) are polynomials and that makes the as a single rational expression on ; these are the values of which make the equal to zero. into intervals based on the and on the other side. 5. In solving rational equations, we need to rewrite the one side of the and of a rational function f(x) is the is zero. of the form 8. It is the set of all values that the variable f(x) will take. 6. The next step is to 7. Then 3. It is a 4. In determining the domain of a rational function we need to denominator not equal to zero. which the 2. The 9. It is a set of values that makes an inequality true.
