How to remove "Free Space" partition on MacBook Pro

So I made a dual boot thing on my MBP, one contained Lion 10.7.4 and the other I'm currently using has Mountain Lion 10.8. (I was afraid to like harm my computer so I dual booted first and then erased the 10.7.4 partition.) Anyways ever since I erased the partition it was left with free space. How can I claim that memory back?

Open the Disk Utility in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder and click on the drive.
If there's a partition above that free space in the list, move the slider at the bottom of it as far down as it will go and click Apply.
If there isn't, create a partition in that space, clone the contents of the partition below it there, restart into the newly-created partition, and delete the old one.
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