Tap the blue circles to see an explanation.
$$ \begin{aligned}\frac{1}{n+2}+\frac{1}{n-2}+\frac{3}{n^2-4}& \xlongequal{ \color{blue}{ \text{\normalsize{ \htmlClass{explanationCircle explanationCircle1}{\textcircled {1}} } }}}\frac{2n}{n^2-4}+\frac{3}{n^2-4} \xlongequal{ } \\[1 em] & \xlongequal{ \color{blue}{ \text{\normalsize{ \htmlClass{explanationCircle explanationCircle2}{\textcircled {2}} } }}}\frac{2n+3}{n^2-4}\end{aligned} $$ | |
① | To add raitonal expressions, both fractions must have the same denominator. |
② | To add expressions with the same denominators, we add the numerators and write the result over the common denominator. $$ \begin{aligned} \frac{2n}{n^2-4} + \frac{3}{n^2-4} & = \frac{2n}{\color{blue}{n^2-4}} + \frac{3}{\color{blue}{n^2-4}} =\frac{ 2n + 3 }{ \color{blue}{ n^2-4 }} \end{aligned} $$ |