Examples of Common Substitutions or Transformations

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• Problem Solving: Substitution Many times when factoring polynomials, or solving complicated algebra equations, it is useful to make a clever substitution to make life easier for…

  By Fiyi Adebekun

• Algebraic Manipulation (Part 3) : Substitutions (Part 1) The link to the last article is here. Here's a simple example : This doesn't seem difficult. However, a square root is i…

  By Zi Song Yeoh, Alex Federspiel, Victor Wang

• Algebraic Manipulation (Part 4) : Substitutions (Part 2) The last article is Algebraic Manipulation (Part 3) : Substitutions (Part 1) In this article we look at a tougher proble…

  By Zi Song Yeoh, Alex Federspiel, Victor Wang

• The topic of inequalities holds its own importance. Here in these series of notes, I would try to unravel those.: Geometric InequalitiesGeometric \ InequalitiesGeometric Inequal…

  By Dinesh Chavan

• Trig substitutions in algebra As the name suggests, we are going to talk about solving algebra problems by substituting trig functions or values. Why do we need this? Sometimes …

  By Chong Jing Quan, Zack Chroman, Alex Federspiel