Question

Simplify:
(x^3+x^2)/(x+1)

Answer 1

what would you do first ?

Answer 2

\[\frac{ x^3+x^2}{ x+1 }\]
Since the equation has a factor of x^2 we can factor it out \[\frac{ x^2(x+1) }{ x+1 }\]
Now we can cancel out like terms and simplify
\[x^2\]