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Simplify:
Your first step was ok, factor out the 2 in the first fraction. The second part was not quite right. In the second fraction, you can factor the binomial in the denominator:
In the first fraction, cancel the 2's, then cancel the (x-7)'s, finally, cancel an x from the denominator of the first fraction and the numerator of the second fraction.

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and this is as far as you can go.