Can you please help me solve this problem?
Is it this?:
1.
Or is it this?:
2.
Or is it this?:
3.
When you type an algebra problem all on one line
you have to put parentheses around the denominator
to show whether the denominator consists of just
the 4, the 4t or the 4t-4
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If it's
1.
then put the right side over 1 so
everythinbg will be a fraction and put parentheses
around it:
Find the LCD which is
but put it over one and in parentheses like this:
Then multiply both sides of the equation by it:
Cancel out the's on the left which just leaves
-8 on the left and erase the 1 denominators on the right
and you just have:
Use FOIL on the right
Combine terms on the right:
Get 0 on the right:
Divide everty term by 8
Solve that by the quadratic formula
a = 1, b = -7, c = 8
So the answers are
and
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If it's
2.
then distribute on the left to remove
the parentheses
Put 1 under the 32, 12 and -2t so
everything will be a fraction, and put
parentheses around them
The LCD is t, so put it over 1 as
and multiply every term by it:
We can cancel the t's in the first term and erase
all the 1 denominators and get:
Get 0 on the right
Divide every term by 2
Solve that by the quadratic formula
a = 1, b = 10, c = -1
So the answers are
and
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If it's
3.
then distribute on the left to remove the parentheses
So there is no solution.
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Edwin