How do you simplify $\frac{x-2}{x^2-4x+4}$ ?

Question

How do you simplify $\frac{x-2}{x^2-4x+4}$ ?

1 Answer

Impact of this question

1019 views around the world

You can reuse this answer
Creative Commons License

Answer 1 · 2015-01-21T01:11:49

First of all, you observe that the denominator $x^2-4x+4$ is equal to $(x-2)^2$ , and so you rewrite your fraction as
$\frac{x-2}{(x-2)^2}=\frac{1}{x-2}$ .
This means that the fraction can be written only if $x\ne 2$

Science

Math

Humanities

... and beyond

How do you simplify $\frac{x-2}{x^2-4x+4}$ ?

1 Answer

Related questions

Impact of this question

Science

Math

Humanities

... and beyond

How do you simplify \frac{x-2}{x^2-4x+4}\frac{x-2}{x^2-4x+4}?

1 Answer

Related questions

Impact of this question

How do you simplify $\frac{x-2}{x^2-4x+4}$ ?