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OpenStudy (anonymous):

help please complex fractions

OpenStudy (anonymous):

OpenStudy (anonymous):

What's your question?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

its in the picture

OpenStudy (anonymous):

i give medels

OpenStudy (anonymous):

start by simplifying this \[3-\frac{4}{v-1}\] any ideas?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

and by simplifying, i mean combining it into a single fraction

OpenStudy (anonymous):

so its \[\frac{ 3v-7 }{ v-1}\]

OpenStudy (anonymous):

yes now remember that \[\frac{1}{\frac{x}{y}} = \frac{y}{x} \] now convert \[\frac{3v}{\frac{3v-7}{v-1}}\] into a proper fraction

OpenStudy (anonymous):

i got \[\frac{3v}{ (3v-7)(v-1) }\]

OpenStudy (anonymous):

not quite it would actually be \[\frac{3v (v-1)}{3v-7}\]

OpenStudy (anonymous):

another way of thinking about it is i multiplied the entire thing by (v-1)/(v-1)

OpenStudy (anonymous):

do you see what i did?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

anyways you just continue the same 2 steps until you get a proper fraction, then you see if you can simplify anything by factoring and etc

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