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Qn: Express as a single fraction in its simplest form
Pls help me with this question step-by-step in detail I am really having trouble with this question thank you so much!!

Date Posted: 4 years ago
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Hope this helps!
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Thank you so much for explanation it’s so clear I finally understand!!:)
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Thank you so much! So detailed and clear greatly appreciated I finally understand this question
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There are 2 important points to solving this question.

First is to observe that the denominator of the first term is actually the product of the second and third denominators (with a slight difference),

With this observation, we can safely proceed to combine the second and third terms because we should then be able to combine them with the first term.

Secondly, when we are going to combine the terms, observe that

x - 1 = - ( 1 - x )

and make sure we change the sign