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"Time to do my homework"

Time for you to do my homework that is.

Simplify:
(5x² + 14x - 3) / (x² - 9)

You know you can do it, I know you can do it, so how about we cut out the 'google it noob' stuff and somebody just helps me out, please.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Yeah, I'm thick, I can't do simple maths

Ah now i see, you dont take them away because they've got to be divided, i think everyone has been adding or taking 3 from each side to balance when you should be dividing.

Factorise top and bottom, and one of the two brackets should be the same... Cancel them off.

Highly Excitable wrote:
> I always thought you had to keep all x's with powers seperate from
> normal x's and from normal indices.
>
> (5x² + 14x - 3) / (x² - 9)
>
> = 4x2 + 14x - 1/3?
>
> I say a 1/3 because I can;t see how everyone has got 6 etc. from -3
> divided by -9...
>
> Well, I think.

I think that might be right, for some unknown reason i tried to keep the divided side.
Well it might have been before you edited it.

I always thought you had to keep all x's with powers seperate from normal x's and from normal indices.

(5x² + 14x - 3) / (x² - 9)

= 4x2 + 14x - 1/3?

I say a 1/3 because I can;t see how everyone has got 6 etc. from -3 divided by -9...

Well, I think.

JFH wrote:
> Time for you to do my homework that is.
>
> Simplify:
> (5x² + 14x - 3) / (x² - 9)


(5x² + 14x - 3) / (x² - 9)

I remember being told to balance the sides so

(5x² + 14x) / (x² -6)

Some people have said then take x² from both sides but i'm not sure you can due to the -6 or take the x². maybe i dont know

(4x² + 14x) / (- 6)

So presuming thats right you can leave it like that or find some way to add the first parts together and i dont see how because of the ², i used to understand all this and it makes me sad i dont remember no matter how pointless it is.

Umm no, how the hell could you have a numbered answer without knowing the values of the letters? Fool.

it's 12

And down's way made absolutely no sense to me.
They must have changed how you do Maths since last time I checked.

19x3 -12?

I've never done algebra before but it seems right to me.

I can't believe that was the hardest question, you Englishers must be idiots.