Algebra Examples

$\frac{4 x^{2} - 16}{- 5 x + 10}$

Step 1

Factor $4 x^{2} - 16$ .

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Step 1.1

Factor $4$ out of $4 x^{2} - 16$ .

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Step 1.1.1

Factor $4$ out of $4 x^{2}$ .

$\frac{4 (x^{2}) - 16}{- 5 x + 10}$

Step 1.1.2

Factor $4$ out of $- 16$ .

$\frac{4 x^{2} + 4 \cdot - 4}{- 5 x + 10}$

Step 1.1.3

Factor $4$ out of $4 x^{2} + 4 \cdot - 4$ .

$\frac{4 (x^{2} - 4)}{- 5 x + 10}$

Step 1.2

Rewrite $4$ as $2^{2}$ .

$\frac{4 (x^{2} - 2^{2})}{- 5 x + 10}$

Step 1.3

Factor.

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Step 1.3.1

Since both terms are perfect squares, factor using the difference of squares formula, $a^{2} - b^{2} = (a + b) (a - b)$ where $a = x$ and $b = 2$ .

$\frac{4 ((x + 2) (x - 2))}{- 5 x + 10}$

Step 1.3.2

Remove unnecessary parentheses.

$\frac{4 (x + 2) (x - 2)}{- 5 x + 10}$

Step 2

Factor $5$ out of $- 5 x + 10$ .

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Step 2.1

Factor $5$ out of $- 5 x$ .

$\frac{4 (x + 2) (x - 2)}{5 (- x) + 10}$

Step 2.2

Factor $5$ out of $10$ .

$\frac{4 (x + 2) (x - 2)}{5 (- x) + 5 (2)}$

Step 2.3

Factor $5$ out of $5 (- x) + 5 (2)$ .

$\frac{4 (x + 2) (x - 2)}{5 (- x + 2)}$

Step 3

Cancel the common factor of $x - 2$ and $- x + 2$ .

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Step 3.1

Factor $- 1$ out of $x$ .

$\frac{4 (x + 2) (- 1 (- x) - 2)}{5 (- x + 2)}$

Step 3.2

Rewrite $- 2$ as $- 1 (2)$ .

$\frac{4 (x + 2) (- 1 (- x) - 1 (2))}{5 (- x + 2)}$

Step 3.3

Factor $- 1$ out of $- 1 (- x) - 1 (2)$ .

$\frac{4 (x + 2) (- 1 (- x + 2))}{5 (- x + 2)}$

Step 3.4

Cancel the common factor.

$\frac{4 (x + 2) (- 1 (- x + 2))}{5 (- x + 2)}$

Step 3.5

Rewrite the expression.

$\frac{4 (x + 2) \cdot (- 1)}{5}$

Step 4

Multiply $- 1$ by $4$ .

$\frac{- 4 (x + 2)}{5}$

Step 5

Move the negative in front of the fraction.

$- \frac{4 (x + 2)}{5}$

Step 6

To find the holes in the graph, look at the denominator factors that were cancelled.

$- x + 2$

Step 7

To find the coordinates of the holes, set each factor that was cancelled equal to $0$ , solve, and substitute back in to $- \frac{4 (x + 2)}{5}$ .

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Step 7.1

Set $- x + 2$ equal to $0$ .

$- x + 2 = 0$

Step 7.2

Solve $- x + 2 = 0$ for $x$ .

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Step 7.2.1

Subtract $2$ from both sides of the equation.

$- x = - 2$

Step 7.2.2

Divide each term in $- x = - 2$ by $- 1$ and simplify.

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Step 7.2.2.1

Divide each term in $- x = - 2$ by $- 1$ .

$\frac{- x}{- 1} = \frac{- 2}{- 1}$

Step 7.2.2.2

Simplify the left side.

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Step 7.2.2.2.1

Dividing two negative values results in a positive value.

$\frac{x}{1} = \frac{- 2}{- 1}$

Step 7.2.2.2.2

Divide $x$ by $1$ .

$x = \frac{- 2}{- 1}$

Step 7.2.2.3

Simplify the right side.

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Step 7.2.2.3.1

Divide $- 2$ by $- 1$ .

$x = 2$

Step 7.3

Substitute $2$ for $x$ in $- \frac{4 (x + 2)}{5}$ and simplify.

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Step 7.3.1

Substitute $2$ for $x$ to find the $y$ coordinate of the hole.

$- \frac{4 (2 + 2)}{5}$

Step 7.3.2

Simplify.

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Step 7.3.2.1

Add $2$ and $2$ .

$- \frac{4 \cdot 4}{5}$

Step 7.3.2.2

Multiply $4$ by $4$ .

$- \frac{16}{5}$

Step 7.4

The holes in the graph are the points where any of the cancelled factors are equal to $0$ .

$(2, - \frac{16}{5})$

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