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Algebra.Com's Answer #65129 by Edwin McCravy(20059) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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document.write( "Put 1 under the 2 and the m so that\r\n" );
document.write( "everything will be fractions:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Put parentheses around every fraction in the\r\n" );
document.write( "top and in the bottom:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Look at all the denominators top \r\n" );
document.write( "and bottom: ,,,,\r\n" );
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document.write( "The LCD of all those is ,\r\n" );
document.write( "write that as  and multiply every term\r\n" );
document.write( "in both the top and the bottom by it:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now cancel what will cancel and simplify:\r\n" );
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document.write( "That's probably as far as you need to go. You can\r\n" );
document.write( "arrange the numerator in descending order of powers\r\n" );
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document.write( "The top will factor by taking out a 6\r\n" );
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document.write( "The top factors again,\r\n" );
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document.write( "But since the bottom does not factor, there was\r\n" );
document.write( "no need to factor the top, because nothing\r\n" );
document.write( "cancels.\r\n" );
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