SOLUTION: need help solving the following please: q^2-16/(q+4)^2 q^2-16 this whole thing is over (q+4)^2

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Question 552186: need help solving the following please:
q^2-16/(q+4)^2
q^2-16 this whole thing is over (q+4)^2

Answer by fcabanski(1391)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

You can either recognize that as a difference of two squares, or factor it with reverse FOIL. Now the problem is simple.



You cannot solve it further, because it isn't an equation. But now it is simplified.

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