SOLUTION: simplify: 2/x+3/y divided by 3/x-2/y Please help me solve this equation I have to submit it for a quiz and I have no idea how to solve it, my book doesn't really explain. tha

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Question 438638: simplify:
2/x+3/y divided by 3/x-2/y
Please help me solve this equation I have to submit it for a quiz and I have no idea how to solve it, my book doesn't really explain.
thanks
Paola
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Assume the problem is
2%2Fx+%2B+3%2Fy
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3%2Fx+-+2%2Fy
this is not an equation, there is no equal sign, you can simplify it
Put the fractions over a common denominator
%282y%2B3x%29%2F%28xy%29
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%283y-2x%29%2F%28xy%29
:
Invert the dividing fraction and multiply:
%282y%2B3x%29%2F%28xy%29 * %28xy%29%2F%283y-2x%29
:
xy cancels, leaving
%282y%2B3x%29%2F%283y-2x%29; about all you can do with it