Assessment #3 Unit S Concept 3

• What is this problem about?

This problem goes over a real problem from Unit S concept 4 which is dealing with using  power reducing formulas. The formulas used in this concept are just as it read, used to reduce the power of the original problem given so that our final product could all be in the first power. In this problem we deal with substitution, foiling, and with common denominators. It makes use of a lot of our algebra skills but still deals mainly with substitution by making use of these power reducing formulas. 

• What does this viewer need to pay special attention to in order to solve the problem correctly?

This viewer needs to pay special attention to how to use the power reducing formulas by breaking up the original equation if dealing with power greater than 2. After doing this the viewer needs to pay special attention to how we deal with the problem after the power reducing formula is substituted in. It starts getting a little difficult after we use m to equal a certain number and how we then plug the value back into with the rest of the equation. The simplification of the rest of the problem, I feel, is most confusing and most difficult to do because of all the substitution it entails.