Thread: help understanding simplification

hi, i am having trouble understanding some simplification my book is using. They take [3x/(3x-2)] and turn it into 1+[2/(3x-2)], can someone please explain how they did that?
thank you

Originally Posted by cowboys111

hi, i am having trouble understanding some simplification my book is using. They take [3x/(3x-2)] and turn it into 1+[2/(3x-2)], can someone please explain how they did that?
thank you

You can do a long division on it, or use a little trick:




Make sure you learn how to do the long division method as well.

-Dan

awesome! thank you