A number decreased by 14 is -46. Find the number.
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I'm assuming all of (x^2+9) is in the denominator. If that assumption is correct, then,
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There are many ways to do this. The idea is that when we have f( g(x) ), we basically replace every x in f(x) with g(x)
So in the first example above, we would have
In that third step, g(x) was replaced with x^2+9 since g(x) = x^2+9.
Similar steps will happen with the second example as well (when g(x) = x^2)