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What is the following quotient?
5 sqrt 11 - sq rt 3

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The given rational function is

We need to rationalize the denominator by multiplying both the numerator and the denominator by the conjugate of

which is

When we rationalize we obtain:

The denominator is now a difference of two squares:

We apply this property to get


This simplifies to

Or

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