Question

Add and simplify if possible:

Answer 1

multiply the numerator and denominator of the first fraction by x+5, then you can add both fractions

Answer 2

what was ur answer

Answer 3

to add fractions you have to find a common denominator. You can multiply the top and the bottom of a fraction by any real number and it wont change the fractions value.

so
(3/(x-5)) + (5/(x^(2) - 25))
So normally it would make sense to
((x^(2)-25)(3)/(x-5))(x^(2) - 25)) + ((x-5)(5)/(x-5))(x^(2) - 25))
=
5(x-5)+3(x^(2)-25)/(x-5)(x^(2) - 25)
but that this is creating more work for yourself if you examine the question more closely you can see that if you factor x^(2)-25 you get (x-5)(x+5) thus the easy route to add them would be just to multiple the one fraction (top and bottom) by (x+5), then you can add them

Answer 4

so its