Question

How do you simplify and reduce this to its lowest term? : [1+(2/x)-(15/x^2)] / [1+(4/x)-(5/x^2)]

Answer 1

(x-3)/(x-1)

Answer 2

is that the answer?

Answer 3

ya

Answer 4

But how do you get that?

Answer 5

ya i'll show u the steps

Answer 6

take lcm on both nr and dr ;
after cancellation u get
\[(x ^{2}+2x-15) / (x ^{2} +4x -5)\] then , factorize on both nr and dr
\[(x-3)(x+5)/ (x-1)(x+5)\] =\[(x-3)/(x-1) \]