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Find the nonpermissible replacement for a in this expression 3/4a

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they are correct the answer is 0

User Brownmike
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Under the assumption your expression is
(3)/(4a), a cannot equal 0. If a=0, then 4a=0 and we have division by 0, which is undefined.
If your original expression was
(3)/(4)a, a could be any real number.
User Lisamarie
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