An advertisement for a lawn service claims their fertilizer treatment kills weeds in half the time. When you read the small print at the bottom of the ad, you see that they asked 20 of their long-term customers to estimate how long it took until their weeds died out before employing the lawn service. On average, the customers said it took 4 weeks for all the weeds to die before the service. The company knows that their fertilizer treatment can kill weeds in 2 weeks

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the simplified form is

step-by-step explanation:

we want to simplify the expression,

let us change the middle bar to a normal division sign to obtain,

we multiply the first fraction by the reciprocal of the second fraction to obtain,

we factor to obtain,

we cancel the common factors to get,

we simplify to get,

the correct answer is b

step-by-step explanation: