Help with simple algebra problem please

[buckysaccord93]

1/x + 1/x+16 = 1/15


I need some quick help please.

[JDMDaniel240]

dam dude im sorry but i cant help you, i wish i could but when i see numbers and letters together in math problems my brain freezes

[92smokeaccord]

should have asked this like 6 years ago be for i left school...but as for no

i agree with him/\/\ brain freeze

[cuate01221]

Ninja edit: 1/x+1/x+16 = 1/15
2/x+16 = 1/15
2/x = 1/15-16
x = 2/(1/15-16)
x = 2/(-239/15)
x = (30/15)/(-239/15)

x = -30/239

or
x = 2/(-239/15)
x = 2/-15.9888888888

x = -0.125523012553

[WilliamW]

is that 1 divided by x plus 1 divided by x plus 16 = 1 divided by 15 ?

OR

is that 1 over x plus 1 over x plus 16 = 1 over 15

???

[WilliamW]

that's a joke btw.....

[WilliamW]

You'd have to find the LCD, least common denominator, which is 15X, then multiply every term(separated by either a + a - or an = sign) so that you can cross out anything they have in common in the denominator.

For the first term 1/x you would multiply it by 15x. The x's cross out so your left with 15 * 1 which 15.

Same for the next, since you have no denominator for 16, you just multiply to get 240X.

then = 1/15 * 15X , the 15's would cross out so it would just be 1*x or 1X.

So your new problem is 15 + 15 + 240X = X

Then you just balance it out.

subtract an X from both sides, your left with 15 + 15 + 239X = 0

Subtract 15 from both sides twice so now it's 239X = -30

Then divide -30 by 239. I'd leave it as - 30/239 unless it reduces.

So X = - 30/239

[bobbycos]

thank god i finished high school in 1984.

you guys lost me at 1/x

[WilliamW]

I literally just finished my Math 098 beginning algebra class yesterday. I got a 104% in the class after my final. It really sucks not going to college for 6 years, but seriously it's just some A's and B's and X and Y and PRESTO you have an acceptable answer!

[Dobermann]

x = -0.125523012553

I also came up with this answer.

[ibr_adam09]

Originally Posted by cuate01221
x = -0.125523012553

I also came up with this answer.

x2

(Did I just make a bad pun ?)