How do you simplify #(5p-10)/(2-p)#?
1 Answer
Apr 14, 2018
Explanation:
Consider
Factor out the 5 giving:
Notice that the
Mathematically you can change things into any form you wish as long as you incorporate something that will take everything back to their original values.
Lets multiply
But this changes the values so lets make adjustments so that when we multiply by
Write
Now it matches the denominator and we can cancel out