Solving rational equations. lcd method. show work. image attached.

So in order to get all the fractions to have a common denominator, we need to multiply by , and by :

Now,

As long as and (which we can't have because otherwise ), we can cancel in the denominators on both sides:

We can factorize the right side:

which tells us that and are solutions.

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step-by-step explanation:

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