Question

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Rectangle A has an area of 4 − x2. Rectangle B has an area of x2 + 2x − 8. In simplest form, what is the ratio of the area of Rectangle A to the area of Rectangle B? Show your work.

Answer 1

you're just dividing the area of rectangle A by rectangle B

(4-X^2)/(X^2+2X-8)
=-(x^2-4)
if you factor these two you get

-(x+2)(x-2)/(x-2)(x+4)

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

Answer 2

Well that was simplier then what i thought it would be to get the answer. Thank you!!