Partial Fractions

Solomon Xie
All Math Before College
2 min readJan 26, 2019

It’s a very useful trick even for Calculus problems

▶ Jump forward to the note on application on Partial fractions for Calculus Integration.

Example

Solve:

  • Factorize the dominator.
  • Write Partial fractions according to the dominator.
  • Add up the partial fractions and arrange it in the same form of nominator:
  • Compare the nominators of both fraction:
  • Build System of equations to solve out for A & B:
  • Plug in and write the Partial fractions:

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Solomon Xie
All Math Before College

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