SOLUTION: What values for x must be excluded in the following fraction? 5/x+1

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Question 42903: What values for x must be excluded in the following fraction?

5/x+1

Answer by fractalier(6550)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The denominator of a fraction cannot be 0, since division by 0 is not allowed.
Can you see that if x = -1, then the denominator goes to zero?
Thus x cannot be -1.

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