SOLUTION: Solve the equation and check the solution. (Enter your answers as a comma-separated list. Simplify your answers completely. If there is no solution, enter NO SOLUTION.) Solve for y

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Question 1130249: Solve the equation and check the solution. (Enter your answers as a comma-separated list. Simplify your answers completely. If there is no solution, enter NO SOLUTION.) Solve for y.
y + 2/3 = (2y-12)/(3y-9)
Identify any extraneous values. (Enter your answers as a comma-separated list. Simplify your answers completely. If there are no extraneous values, enter NO SOLUTION.)

Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, MathLover1:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Try seeing the equation with some factorizations done:



The simplest common denominator can be identified as .

Multiply entire left and right sides of the equation by 3(y-3), which allows to clear denominators; and continue to simplify and solve.

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Answer by MathLover1(20850)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

............cross multiply




......simplify, both sides divide by
..............factor completely




solutions:
if ->
if ->



check the solution:

->



-> true; so, is a solution

->




-> true; so, is a solution

there are extraneous values
your answer: ,




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