What is 5 divided by x^2+3x+2 added by 3 divided by x+1? (See details for formatting?

DoodleDoodle

1 Answer
Jul 13, 2016

Put on a common denominator.

Explanation:

=5/((x +2)(x + 1)) + 3/(x + 1)

=5/((x + 2)(x + 1)) + (3(x + 2))/((x + 2)(x + 1))

=(5 + 3x + 6)/((x + 2)(x + 1))

=(11 + 3x)/((x + 2)(x + 1))

Hopefully this helps!