Question

How do you multiply `(x-3)/(x-5)=3/(x-5)`?

Answer 1

We first determine that `x!=5`, as this would make the denominators `=0`, which is not allowed.

Then we can cancel out the `(x-5)` on both sides (=multiply both sides by `x-5`):

`->(x-3)=3->x=6`

Answer : `x=6`