Question

How do you simplify `(8x - 8)/(x^2 + x - 2)`?

Answer 1

Factorise numerator and denominator, and cancel out an factors which appear both above and below.

Explanation:

`(8x-8)/(x^2+x-2)`

`=(8(cancel(x-1)))/((x+2)(cancel(x-1)))`

`=8/(x+2)`