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Algebra.Com's Answer #53948 by Edwin McCravy(20056) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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document.write( "Write the  as  so everything\r\n" );
document.write( "will be a fraction.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then put parentheses around the top and the bottom:\r\n" );
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document.write( "The four denominators are 1, x, 4, and 8\r\n" );
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document.write( "The LCD of those is 8x, so multiply by the\r\n" );
document.write( "fraction  but write it as\r\n" );
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document.write( "So now we have\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now remove the parentheses by distributing on the \r\n" );
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document.write( "Cancel what will cancel and you have:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now factor 16 out of the top and x out of the bottom:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Cancel the 's and all that's left is\r\n" );
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