Tyler Wallace's "Beginning and Intermediate Algebra: Section 7.1 Rational Expressions - Reduce Rational Expressions"
Read this section. Rational expressions are just fractions and fractions of polynomials. Focus on the use of the rules of exponentiation and when we can cancel in fractions.
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