Question

What does Canceling mean?

Answer 1

2x/x =2 if x!=0

Answer 2

its a misnomer; canceling is either when you add to get 0 or multiply to get 1 i believe

Answer 3

\[ax/a=x\]Where 'a' is a constant. That's canceling.

Answer 4

What they appear now to call factors of 1 or some such...

Answer 5

since like terms over one another = 1: 3/3, 25/25, (x-1)/(x-1) ; it resembles a "cancelation".

But you are simplifying to "1" and ignoring it since its redundant

Answer 6

Cancelling in fractions is the process of finding factors of 1 that are hiding in your expression.

Cancelling in sums is finding 0 terms that are hiding in your expression.

Answer 7

across, where "a" is a constant?