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Algebra.Com's Answer #67512 by Edwin McCravy(20055) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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document.write( "Remove the parentheses on the left:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Put parentheses around every term, so you can\r\n" );
document.write( "multiply through:\r\n" );
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document.write( "The LCD of the denominators is 12, so multiply\r\n" );
document.write( "every term by 12:\r\n" );
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document.write( "The 6 cancels into the 12 in the first term,\r\n" );
document.write( "The 2 cancels into the 12 in the second term\r\n" );
document.write( "The third term becomes just 3\r\n" );
document.write( "On the right the first term becomes 24x\r\n" );
document.write( "On the right the last term becomes -84\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now you can solve that and get \r\n" );
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