How do you simplify $4/(x-5)= (x-2)/(x-5)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2017-06-11T22:10:06

$x=6$

Since the denominators of the fraction are equal, we can multiply by $(x-5)$ on both sides to end up with:

$4=x-2$

Then, we add 2 to both sides to isolate x and end up with:

$x=6$ .

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