// Numbas version: finer_feedback_settings {"name": "AE3 - Cancelling algebraic fractions", "extensions": [], "custom_part_types": [], "resources": [], "navigation": {"allowregen": true, "showfrontpage": false, "preventleave": false, "typeendtoleave": false}, "question_groups": [{"pickingStrategy": "all-ordered", "questions": [{"name": "AE3 - Cancelling algebraic fractions", "tags": [], "metadata": {"description": "
A question to practice simplifying fractions with the use of factorisation (for binomial and quadratic expressions).
", "licence": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International"}, "statement": "Simplify the following algebraic expression.
", "advice": "\\[\\frac{{\\simplify{(n^2+({e1}+{e2})n+{e1}{e2})}}}{{\\simplify{(n^2+({e1}+{e3})n+{e1}{e3})}}}\\]
\nIn this question there is a quadratic expression which needs to be factorised into the products of binomials in both the numerator and denominator.
\n\\[\\frac{({\\simplify{n+{e1}}})({\\simplify{n+{e2}}})}{({\\simplify{n+{e1}}})({\\simplify{n+{e3}}})}\\]
\nThe repeated binomials in the numerator and denominator cancel, leaving:
\n\\[\\frac{({\\simplify{n+{e2}}})}{({\\simplify{n+{e3}}})}\\]
\n\nUse this link to find some resources which will help you revise this topic.
", "rulesets": {}, "extensions": [], "builtin_constants": {"e": true, "pi,\u03c0": true, "i": true}, "constants": [], "variables": {"e2": {"name": "e2", "group": "Ungrouped variables", "definition": "random(-5..5 except 0)", "description": "", "templateType": "anything", "can_override": false}, "e1": {"name": "e1", "group": "Ungrouped variables", "definition": "random(-5..5 except 0)", "description": "", "templateType": "anything", "can_override": false}, "e3": {"name": "e3", "group": "Ungrouped variables", "definition": "random(-5..5 except 0 except e2)", "description": "", "templateType": "anything", "can_override": false}}, "variablesTest": {"condition": "", "maxRuns": 100}, "ungrouped_variables": ["e1", "e2", "e3"], "variable_groups": [], "functions": {"": {"parameters": [], "type": "number", "language": "jme", "definition": ""}}, "preamble": {"js": "", "css": ""}, "parts": [{"type": "jme", "useCustomName": false, "customName": "", "marks": 1, "scripts": {}, "customMarkingAlgorithm": "", "extendBaseMarkingAlgorithm": true, "unitTests": [], "showCorrectAnswer": true, "showFeedbackIcon": true, "variableReplacements": [], "variableReplacementStrategy": "originalfirst", "nextParts": [], "suggestGoingBack": false, "adaptiveMarkingPenalty": 0, "exploreObjective": null, "prompt": "\\[\\frac{\\simplify{(n^2+({e1}+{e2})n+{e1}{e2})}}{\\simplify{(n^2+({e1}+{e3})n+{e1}{e3})}}\\]
", "answer": "(n+{e2})/(n+{e3})", "showPreview": true, "checkingType": "absdiff", "checkingAccuracy": 0.001, "failureRate": 1, "vsetRangePoints": 5, "vsetRange": [0, 1], "checkVariableNames": false, "singleLetterVariables": false, "allowUnknownFunctions": true, "implicitFunctionComposition": false, "caseSensitive": false, "notallowed": {"strings": ["^2", "^"], "showStrings": false, "partialCredit": 0, "message": ""}, "valuegenerators": [{"name": "n", "value": ""}]}], "partsMode": "all", "maxMarks": 0, "objectives": [], "penalties": [], "objectiveVisibility": "always", "penaltyVisibility": "always", "type": "question", "contributors": [{"name": "Luke Park", "profile_url": "https://numbas.mathcentre.ac.uk/accounts/profile/826/"}, {"name": "Anna Strzelecka", "profile_url": "https://numbas.mathcentre.ac.uk/accounts/profile/2945/"}, {"name": "heike hoffmann", "profile_url": "https://numbas.mathcentre.ac.uk/accounts/profile/2960/"}, {"name": "Andrew Neate", "profile_url": "https://numbas.mathcentre.ac.uk/accounts/profile/21832/"}]}]}], "contributors": [{"name": "Luke Park", "profile_url": "https://numbas.mathcentre.ac.uk/accounts/profile/826/"}, {"name": "Anna Strzelecka", "profile_url": "https://numbas.mathcentre.ac.uk/accounts/profile/2945/"}, {"name": "heike hoffmann", "profile_url": "https://numbas.mathcentre.ac.uk/accounts/profile/2960/"}, {"name": "Andrew Neate", "profile_url": "https://numbas.mathcentre.ac.uk/accounts/profile/21832/"}]}