Question

Reduce -8 + b^2 by 5 + b^2.



-3

2b² - 3

-13

Answer 1

Are you dividing these?

Answer 2

just reducing it says

Answer 3

@IMStuck

Answer 4

@iGreen

Answer 5

Sorry I was gone so long!

Answer 6

This is what I did to reduce (because in a sense, when you are reducing one by another, you are dividing):

Answer 7

\[\frac{ -8+b ^{2} }{ 5+b ^{2} }-->\frac{ b ^{2}-8 }{ b ^{2}+5 }\]just for ease of dividing.

Answer 8

Do you see what I did there? Then of course you would change the signs because you have to subtract that quantity, so that would look like this: