## anonymous 3 years ago Help Please for a medal and fan! ***Attachment Below***

1. anonymous

2. anonymous

First find an LCD which is?

3. anonymous

6y @gaara438125

4. anonymous

just like performing this operation on numbers, take the lcm of denominator and work this out. BTW, in this particular case you can take the common denominator y outside of the equation and reduce the rest, to make it look more artithmetic rather than algebraic

5. anonymous

yeah, so make the fractions have the LCD it now looks like: $\frac{ 15 }{ 6y } + \frac{ 1 }{ 6y } - \frac{ 8 }{ 6y } =$ i can't see what it's equal too lol

6. anonymous

when you have the same denominator, you can directly perform the numerator functions without further modification

7. anonymous

so is the answer 8/6y ?

8. anonymous

yes, then simplify that to make it look like?

9. anonymous

4/3y ?

10. anonymous

yeah, and is it equal to anything?

11. anonymous

the picture is cut off

12. anonymous

no :)

13. anonymous

thanks for the help!