Question

Felipe and Ajay manipulated the rational expression \dfrac{-6y - 4}{-8y - 4}

Answer 1

Answer:

Neither of them

Step-by-step explanation:

                      $\dfrac{-6y-4}{-8y-4} = \dfrac{2(-3y-2)}{4(-2y-1)} = \dfrac{-2(3y+2)}{-4(2y+1)} = \dfrac{2(3y+2)}{4(2y+1)}$

We can cancel this fraction and obtain:

                                            $\dfrac{3y+2}{2(2y+1)}$

So neither of them wrote an expression that is equivalent to the original expression. Felipe's expression is missing a 2 in the denominator.