SOLUTION: Simplify, leaving each answer in factored form Divide: {{{(x^2 + 3x - 54)/(x^2 + 5x + 6)}}}{{{"÷"}}}{{{(x^2 - 12x + 36)/(x^3 - 3x - 18)}}}

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Question 1032750: Simplify, leaving each answer in factored form
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Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!



Invert the second fraction and change the division
to multiplication:



Factor each trinomial:







To factor , consider as



3|1  0 -3 -18
 |   3  9  18
  1  3  6   0



So original expression becomes:



After all that factoring the only thing that cancels
is one of the (x-6)'s!!!:





Edwin
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