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How to simplify this question?

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b/(b^2-25) + 5/(b+5) - 6/b
asked May 11, 2013 in ALGEBRA 1 by abstain12 Apprentice

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b / (b2 - 25) + 5 / (b + 5) - 6 / b

= b / (b2 - 25) + 5(b - 5) / (b2 - 25) - 6 / b

= b + 5b - 25 / (b2 - 25)  -6 / b

= 6b - 25 / ( b2 - 25) -6 / b

= 6b2 - 25b - 6b2 + 150 / b(b2 - 25)

= 150 - 25b / b(b2 - 25)

= 25(6 - b) / b( b2 - 25).

 

answered May 11, 2013 by diane Scholar

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