Question

What is the solution to the rational equation ?

Answer 1

what equation?

Answer 2

Combine like terms.... 1st

Answer 3

what do you mean?

Answer 4

place the x's with the x's and the constant's with the constants

Answer 5

i have no clue what you are talking about, im new at this

Answer 6

constant is a number, ANY number, and x is of course, a variable.

Answer 7

So, add or subtract like terms from each-other accordingly.

Answer 8

is the answer 3/2

Answer 9

?

Answer 10

1 moment.

Answer 11

I think it may be...

Answer 12

Let me get somebody in here with us, he should be here soon...

Answer 13

can you bump the question up?

Answer 14

Here he is!

Answer 15

When you have two fractions with the same denominator, you can add or subtract, right?

Like 2/3 + 4/3 = 6/3 or 6/7 - 2/7 = 4/7

So, you have 3 fractions, and two of them have "2x - 1" as the denominator.

You can subtract the one on the right of the equation to get everything on the left.

Answer 16

like:

x/(2x - 1) + 1/4 - 2/(2x-1) = 0

then you can combine the two terms with the same denominator:

(x - 2)/(2x - 1) + 1/4 = 0

Answer 17

\[4(x)+(2x-1)=2(4)\]
multiplying everything by 4(2x-1)
\[6x=9\]

Answer 18

(btw, there is more than one way to do this problem... mine is just one way... the other way is like @Jonask is doing... and his is probably the easier way)

Answer 19

The reason you multiply everything by 4(2x-1) in @Jonask's approach is that it removes the denominators by cancelling everything out on the bottoms...

Easier to work without fractions, so that gets rid of them right away.

Answer 20

did you verify all methods gets the same solution

Answer 21

the choices i have are: 9/2, 7/2, 3/2 and 7/6

Answer 22

3/2