SOLUTION: I would greatly appreciate some help with factoring. I understand that is basically means to divide, but when the book says simplify this: 5x + 2y/ 35x + 14y, it does not make sen
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: I would greatly appreciate some help with factoring. I understand that is basically means to divide, but when the book says simplify this: 5x + 2y/ 35x + 14y, it does not make sense to me in the examples in the book because I come up with something far different than the check figures in the back of the book. Here is what I have done so far: 1x + 1y / 7x + 7y. I also tried it this way:-1(5x +2y)/(35x +14y) = x+y/7x +7y. But it seems like there should be more to it than that. This question is from textbook beginning Algebra
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