Question

How do you simplify `(5x-10)/(x^2-64)` and what are the restrictions?

Answer 1

There's not much to simplify, but you can factorise

Explanation:

`=(5*(x-5))/((x+8)(x-8))`

The restrictions are that the numerator is not allowed to be `=0`
This means that `x!=-8andx!=+8`