SOLUTION: Please help me divide this equation: {{{ (a+1)/(a^2+2a+1) }}}.

Question 69270: Please help me divide this equation: .
Answer by ptaylor(2198) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
We can factor the denominator but first we will re-write the denominator:
which equals
and this equals:
cancel an (a+1) in the numerator and denominator:
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Now lets look at:
This is a quadratic in standard form where:
A=1
B=2
C=1
If a quadratic can be factored and the A coefficient is 1, then the B coefficient is the sum of the factors of C.
The only factors that C has in this quadratic is 1*1 or -1*-1 and we can see that the sum of the 1*1 factor is 1+1 or 2.

Hope this helps---ptaylor

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