§7 - Gavilan College

The conjugate is a binomial with the exact same terms but the opposite sign. Example: What is the conjugate of the following? 5x + (2 (x ( y (5x ( 3(5y. Once the conjugate of the binomial denominator is found then we multiply both the denominator and the numerator by this conjugate, creating problems like those found in ยง7.4. ................
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