I tried to my best to type the fractions so I hope this makes sense. Can you help me solve this? The LCD of all the denominators is So put the LCD over 1 = - On the left side you can cancel the 6 into the 36 and end up with = - In the first term on the right you can cancel the 9 into the 36 and end up with = - In the last term on the right you can cancel both the 4 into the 36 and the (n-1)'s and now you have just = - Remove the parentheses by distributing: = - Edwin