Question

How do you simplify `(m-2)/(m-5)*(m+5)/(m-2)`?

Answer 1

You cancel out the terms common to the nominator and to the denominator.

Explanation:

Notice that you initial expression has `(m-2)` as the numerator of the first fraction and as the denominator of the second fraction.

This means that you can cancel out this term to get

`cancel(m-2)/(m-5) * (m+5)/cancel(m-2) = color(green)((m+5)/(m-5))`

And that is how your simplified expression looks like.