Question

Describe a situation when you might not want to clear fractions in an equation.

Answer 1

Ok take an example of expressing a line in slope intercept form

if the equation is

\[y-\dfrac{1}{2}x-3=0\]

and if the question asks for finding slope we need not multiply the whole equation to remove fraction \(\dfrac{1}{2}\) .Instead just take 2nd and 3rd term to RHS

\[y=\dfrac{1}{2}x+3\]

slope=\(\dfrac{1}{2}\)

Answer 2

@melissa98 does that help ?