i need help factoring these into simplest form
(x^2 +1)^1/2 - 1/2x(x^2 +1)^-1/2 (2x)

(x^3)(1/3)(1-x^2)^-3/4(-2x)+ (1-x^2)^1/4 (3x^2)

i have the answers, i just got lost during the process.

pretty confusing how you have written it down
use [ ]. { }. < > to show what the real terms are and leave some spaces in between to make it legible

your going to find that:

• Anything can be factored out of anything else, however often times it is not useful to do so.
• There is no definition of what is simpler than what, and without further guidance it is often difficult to tell what simplest means.

Also I'm not 100% clear on what the actual problem is, so if my first line is not a correct interpretation, well ignore the rest. I'll assume simplest form means no negative exponents (no radicals in denominators), and at most one fraction in the expression:



This post was edited by Azrad on Aug 27 2013 12:36am

thanks i got it figured out with someone already.