Help me Please.
Roots: find the square roots of the following polynomials.
4x2/y2 - 36x/y + 81
OK.....this looks a little daunting.....let's make it easier
Let x /y = "a"
So x^2 / y^2 = (x /y)^2 = "a^2"
Now.....we have someting that is a little more familiar....so....
4 (x^2/y^2) - 36 (x/y) + 81 becomes
4a^2 - 36a + 81 let us guess that the factorization of this is
(2a - 9) (2a - 9) verify for yourself that this is the correct factoring
(2a - 9)^2
But.....also ....notice that
[ -(2a - 9) ] [ - (2a - 9) ] will also produce the same result = [ - (2a - 9) ]^2
So......the square roots are
±(2a - 9) ....so....just back-substitute and we have
± [ 2(x/y) - 9 ]