standard_description: Understand that rational expressions form a system analogous to the rational numbers, closed under addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division by a nonzero rational expression; add, subtract, multiply, and divide rational expressions.
problem_activity: Problem 1
Must the product of three polynomials again be a polynomial?
Problem 2
Find
$${(w^2+1)(w^3-w+1)}$$
.


aligns: no