adelaidegladebrooke adelaidegladebrooke
  • 22-02-2020
  • Mathematics
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I am supposed to simplify 1/a-b - 1/b-a

The answer is 2/ a-b

But I don't know how they got the denominator during the working and the final answer.
Please help, thank you

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jimrgrant1 jimrgrant1
  • 22-02-2020

Answer:

see explanation

Step-by-step explanation:

Given

[tex]\frac{1}{a-b}[/tex] - [tex]\frac{1}{b-a}[/tex]

Before subtracting the fractions, we require them to have common denominator.

Multiply the numerator/denominator of the second fraction by - 1

[tex]\frac{1}{b-a}[/tex] × [tex]\frac{-1}{-1}[/tex] = [tex]\frac{-1}{a-b}[/tex]

We now have

[tex]\frac{1}{a-b}[/tex] - [tex]\frac{-1}{a-b}[/tex] ← common denominators

= [tex]\frac{1}{a-b}[/tex] + [tex]\frac{1}{a-b}[/tex]

= [tex]\frac{1+1}{a-b}[/tex]

= [tex]\frac{2}{a-b}[/tex]

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