SOLUTION: Please help me to simplify each complex fraction and reduce each answer to lowest terms:
42) 1/3+1/y over y/3-3/y
and
50) ab+b^2/4ab^5 over a+b/6a^2b^4
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Question 88743: Please help me to simplify each complex fraction and reduce each answer to lowest terms:
42) 1/3+1/y over y/3-3/y
and
50) ab+b^2/4ab^5 over a+b/6a^2b^4
Thank you very much!
Answer by chitra(359) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
42) The given expression is:
over
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Taking LCM on both the numerator and the denominator, we get:
Simplifying the term in the denominator, we get:
This can be written as:
Cancelling out terms, we get:
Hence, the solution.
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50) over
This can be written as:
Taking "b" as the common factor, we get:
This can be written as:
Cancelling out common terms, we get:
Hence, the solution.
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