SOLUTION: Could you please show me in detail this problem: 1/x + 6/y ___________ 1/x2 - 36/y2 Thank you very much!

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Question 92456: Could you please show me in detail this problem:
1/x + 6/y
___________
1/x2 - 36/y2
Thank you very much!

Answer by ptaylor(2198)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Could you please show me in detail this problem:
1/x + 6/y
___________
1/x2 - 36/y2
Thank you very much!

Our approach will be to first simplify the numerator and then simplify the denominator and finally put them back together and simplify again.
Numerator:
multiply each term by and we get

Next the denominator
multiply each term by and we get
and we can further simplify this:
now we can put the numerator and denominator back together
We will now multiply the numerator and denominator by . By doing this, our denominator will become 1.
Now when we start simplifying this expression we end up with:
and this equals:
-------------------ans

Hope this helps----ptaylor

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