SOLUTION: How do you reduce rational expressionsto lowest terms? For example: xy+2x+3y+6 ___________ = I can not figure out how to solve this problem. Thanks! xy+2x+5y+10

Question 467315: How do you reduce rational expressionsto lowest terms? For example:
xy+2x+3y+6
____________ = I can not figure out how to solve this problem. Thanks!
xy+2x+5y+10
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Sorry about this idiot
:
xy+2x+3y+6
____________ = I can not figure out how to solve this problem. Thanks!
xy+2x+5y+10
:
Factor by factoring out the common term in two groups

:
We can factor out (y+2) leaving

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(x+2) will cancel, leaving

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