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Let's fly back again
to the days of dinosaurs and no calculators! If math geeks had to
calculate a decimal for something like
things got really
ugly.
They'd have to use a table to get the value
for
 ... Then, they'd have to do the long
division by hand:
Yuck!
So, it was a LOT
easier for them if there wasn't a radical in the
denominator.
They created a fun
little game called "rationalizing the denominator."
Here's how it goes:
Multiply by a
magic 1.
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