SOLUTION: Please help me simplify this complex rational expression: 1+1/x / x-1/x one plus one over x divided by x minus 1 over x

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Question 189567: Please help me simplify this complex rational expression:
1+1/x
/
x-1/x
one plus one over x divided by x minus 1 over x

Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I'm assuming that this is it right?


Start with the given expression.


Multiply EVERY term by the inner LCD "x" to clear out the inner fractions.


Simplify.


Factor the denominator (use the difference of squares formula).


Highlight the common terms.


Cancel out the common terms.


Simplify.



So simplifies to


In other words, where , , or

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