SOLUTION: can you help solve thi with all steps (x^2-1)/(x+1) =x-1

SOLUTION: can you help solve thi with all steps (x^2-1)/(x+1) =x-1

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Question 465511: can you help solve thi with all steps
(x^2-1)/(x+1)
=x-1
Answer by robertb(5830) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Notice that if , then we can cancel terms from the left-side of the equation, to get
,
which tells us that the equation is an IDENTITY as long as .
Hence the solution set is the set of all real numbers except -1.
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