to all of the people saying “its easy, I can do it in my head” I’m not talking about factoring an orderly quadratic I’m talking about simplifying a monstrosity like this:
you really think you could simplify THIS in your head
(tbf this isn’t actually that hard of a problem, but like, you get what I mean?)
fun fact:
trying to do algebra without writing things down is like trying to assemble something in your hands without a table
guess what happens when you try to do that with something big and complicated
you drop and break stuff
49.5+9x/5-66/x²+12/5x
is this in simplest form? (i didn’t do this in my head)