simplify:
X - - 2x-5
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x-3 x + 2
Sara, use parenthesis, like this:
x/(x-5) + (3x+6)/(x+2)
To simplify the expression, we need to combine the terms in the numerator and denominator separately.
Let's start with the numerator:
X - - 2x - 5
To combine like terms, we can simplify the expression by adding or subtracting the coefficients of the same variable.
X - - 2x is equal to X + 2x, which simplifies to 3x.
Therefore, the numerator simplifies to 3x - 5.
Now let's simplify the denominator:
x - 3 and x + 2
There are no like terms to combine, so the denominators remain the same.
Now we can rewrite the expression as:
(3x - 5) / (x - 3)(x + 2)
This is the simplified form of the expression.