SOLUTION: This is a complex fraction. Instructions are to simplify. {{{2+3/(1+2/(1-x))}}}

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Question 143734: This is a complex fraction. Instructions are to simplify.


Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
      


First do only the part boxed in





Write  as 



Get the LCD of .  Multiply top and
bottom of  by 





Combine the numerators over the LCD:





Now go back to 


and replace the boxed-in part by 



Erasing the box:



Now do only the part boxed in here:





This can be done by inverting and multiplying:



Write  as :



Multiply numerators and denominators:



Now go back to



and replace the boxed-in part by 



Erasing the box:



Write  as 



Get the LCD of .  Multiply top and
bottom of  by 





Combine the numerators over the LCD:





Edwin

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