Remove the parentheses on the left: Put parentheses around every term, so you can multiply through: The LCD of the denominators is 12, so multiply every term by 12: The 6 cancels into the 12 in the first term, The 2 cancels into the 12 in the second term The third term becomes just 3 On the right the first term becomes 24x On the right the last term becomes -84 Now you can solve that and get Edwin