Steven G
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You need to be careful when you say cancel out. For example 7-7 cancels out to zero while 7/7 cancels out to 1 and 14/7 cancels out to 2. As you see, when terms/factors cancel out they do not always cancel out to the same value. As a result you really should not use the phrase cancels out.