How do you simplify (x^2+5x)/(2x)?
1 Answer
Oct 18, 2015
Explanation:
In order to simplify a fraction, we need to simplify the top and the bottom. Let's start with the top, since the bottom is about as simplified as can be:
x^2 + 5x
One commonality between these two terms in the expression is the x variable, which we can take out:
x(x+5)
From here we can determine a commonality between the top and the bottom, which we can cancel out.
(x(x+5))/(2x)
(cancel(x)(x+5))/(cancel(x)(2))
This gets us with our final answer,
Hope this helped!