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

==>

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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