SOLUTION: x/(x-3)=(2x+5)/(x+1)

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Question 620152: x/(x-3)=(2x+5)/(x+1)
Answer by ewatrrr(24785)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
 
Hi,
||Cross Multiplying to solve
x(x+1) = (2x+5)(x-3)
x^2 + x = 2x^2 -x - 15
0 = x^2 - 2x - 15
(x-5)(x+3) = 0 x = -3 or x = 5
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