Please see new post. Posted it as soon as I could but needed approval so you didn’t see it. Looks like it’s up now. I believe it’s asking to simplify the expression. ThanksPlease read the guidelines for posting. What you posted makes no sense in that there are no instruction to tell us what is required.
You have not shown any of your own work, nor have you said what you do not understand. Please reply.
Hi JeffM. Sorry if my working confused you. When I used left and right hand side I meant of the expression, which was supposed to allow me to simplify each side separately. I recognize now that it is the same abbreviations used in equations.OK
First point is that if the task is to simplify an expression, there is no LHS and RHS unless you create an equation.
I think the question was a bit misleading when it said to evaluate and only gave a strict inequality. I read online that evaluate is talking about questions where you have to substitute values for algebraic variables (think x+2, x=1). Correct me if I’m wrong but I think clearer terminology could have been used
Thanks for your response. I still need to work through it, but Romsek did a wonderful job getting to 0, thank you both so much.