Question

Factor 18x(x²-5)^-4(x+1)^4+(x²-5)^-3(x+1)^3
Help Please

Answer 1

bit confused by your powers here. Are those negative powers on the (x^2-5) factor?

Answer 2

yup

Answer 3

well there is more than one way to express it then. The general rule for factorising is to take out the lowest (i.e. less positive) powers as factors to start with.

Answer 4

yeah

Answer 5

but there are two different exponent values

Answer 6

(x^2-5)^-4(x+1)^3[18(x^2-5)(x+1)] is this right?

Answer 7

hello?

Answer 8

I thought mww was helping you. Sorry.

Answer 9

Can you rewrite the whole equation in clearer relevance so I understand completely.

Answer 10

um close. you got the outside part right

Answer 11

The inside should be (18x(x+1)+(x^2-5)) = (19x^2 +18x-5)

Answer 12

how did u get to that