SOLUTION: Good day! Kindly help me with this word problem. The denominators of a fraction is 1 more than twice the numerator. If 4 is added to the numerator and subtracted from the deno

Question 683618: Good day! Kindly help me with this word problem.
The denominators of a fraction is 1 more than twice the numerator. If 4 is added to the numerator and subtracted from the denominator, the result is the reciprocal of the fraction. Find the original fraction.
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Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
= the original fraction
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The denominators of a fraction is 1 more than twice the numerator.
d = 2n + 1
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If 4 is added to the numerator and subtracted from the denominator, the result is the reciprocal of the fraction.
=
cross multiply
d(d-4) = n(n+4)
d^2 - 4d = n^2 + 4n
Replace d with (2n+1)
(2n+1)^2 - 4(2n+1) = n^2 + 4n
4n^2 + 4n + 1 - 8n - 4 = n^2 + 4n
4n^2 - 4n - 3 = n^2 + 4n
4n^2 - n^2 - 4n - 4n - 3 = 0
a quadratic equation
3n^2 - 8n - 3 = 0
Factors to
(3n+1)(n-3) = 0
The positive solution is all we want here
n = 3 is the original numerator
and
d = 2(3)+1
d = 7 is the original denominator
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You can check this in the given statement

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