document.write( "Question 64017: 6X-9Y+3Z\r\n" );
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document.write( "WOULD I BE CORRECT IN THINKING THAT WOULD BE 2X-3Y+Z?\r\n" );
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Algebra.Com's Answer #44659 by Edwin McCravy(20063) You can put this solution on YOUR website! \r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "You are right. But here are the steps which you\r\n" ); document.write( "must follow in case in the future you have a more \r\n" ); document.write( "complicated but similar problem, where the \r\n" ); document.write( "denominator does not divide exactly into all the \r\n" ); document.write( "numerator terms, as it does in this one:\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( " 6X - 9Y + 3Z\r\n" ); document.write( "覧覧覧覧覧覧覧\r\n" ); document.write( " 3\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "There are three terms in the top, so start out\r\n" ); document.write( "with a row of three lines and signs, the same\r\n" ); document.write( "signs that are between the terms:\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "覧覧 - 覧覧 + 覧覧\r\n" ); document.write( " \r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "Then write in the three numerators on top of the\r\n" ); document.write( "lines:\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( " 6X 9Y 3Z\r\n" ); document.write( "覧覧 - 覧覧 + 覧覧\r\n" ); document.write( " \r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "and then write the common denominator under each \r\n" ); document.write( "line:\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( " 6X 9Y 3Z\r\n" ); document.write( "覧覧 - 覧覧 + 覧覧\r\n" ); document.write( " 3 3 3\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "Now cancel each of the 3's into the numerators:\r\n" ); document.write( " \r\n" ); document.write( " 2 3 1\r\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " |