SOLUTION: solve for x: x+2/x+6 = x-1/x+1

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Question 449158: solve for x: x+2/x+6 = x-1/x+1
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Hi, 

Solving for x

  |Cross Multiplying 

  (x+2)(x+1) = (x+6)(x-1)

   x^2 + 3x+2 = x^2 + 5x-6

           8 = 2x

           x = 4

CHECKING our Answer***

    6/10 = 3/5 

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