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lozanna [386]
2 years ago
8

Describe and correct the error in solving the following rational equation , plz help!!!!!

Mathematics
1 answer:
aleksley [76]2 years ago
5 0

First of all, x cannot ever equal -1 because if it does then in the original equation you'd be dividing by 0, which is not possible. anything divided by 0 is undefined.

I think the error was in the second step: x(x+1) = 2(x+1) because they didn't need to go from the first step to there. I'm assuming they multiplied both sides of the equation with (x+1) to get rid of the fraction, but since both sides have (x+1) as the denominator the (x+1) would've cancelled out instead of multiplying with the numerator.

Correction:

\frac{x}{x+1} = \frac{2}{x+1}\\(\frac{x+1}{1}) (\frac{x}{x+1}) = (\frac{2}{x+1})(\frac{x+1}{1}) \\x = 2

as u can see, in the second step of this correction, the (x+1)s on both sides cancel out so only the numerators remain.

Hope this helps!

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