Objectives 

• Reducing to Lowest Terms

• Finding the Least Common Denominator

• Mixed Quotients

Examples

• Example 1

• Example 2

• Example 3

• Example 4

These rules, along with your factoring skills, will allow you to do the following:

•     Reduce a rational expression to "lowest terms."

•     Combine rational expressions using the 

•     Simplify complicated rational expressions known as