SOLUTION: Express as a single fraction in lowest terms: 1 - 2w - 6y/5w + 4w - y/2w

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Question 387409: Express as a single fraction in lowest terms:
1 - 2w - 6y/5w + 4w - y/2w
Answer by unlockmath(1688) About Me  (Show Source):
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Hello,
This 1 - 2w - 6y/5w + 4w - y/2w could be rewritten as:
10w/10w - 20w^2/10w - 12y/10w + 40w^2/10w - 5y/10w
What I did was to get the same denominator so this can be written as:
(20w^2+10w-17y)/10w
There we go.
Make sense?
RJ
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