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Common errors

  1. Canceling from only one term, rather than having a factor in all terms.
  2. Insufficient parentheses to make clear what the main connective is in a complex fraction.
  3. Failure to invert the denominator when simplifying a complicated fraction with fractions in the denominator.



Larry Stout 2003-01-09