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Help please I don’t understand this math problem-example-1
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If you divide (6x +3) by (x +1) you get some quotient and some remainder. You can do it a variety of ways, including synthetic division and long division. The method used here is to rewrite 6x+3 as a multiple of x+1 with some constant term added.
.. 6x +3 = (6x +3) +3 -3
.. = (6x +3 +3) -3
.. = (6x +6) -3
.. = 6(x +1) -3

Now, you can divide this by (x +1) and you have

(6x+3)/(x+1) = (6(x+1)-3)/(x+1) = (6(x+1))/(x+1) +(-3)/(x+1) = (-3)/(x+1)+6
Then the boxes can be filled from ...

g(x)=(6(x+1)+(-3))/(x+1)=(-3)/(x+1)+6

You know that
.. f(x) +6
represents a translation of f(x) by 6 units up
And you know that
.. f(x +1)
represents a translation of f(x) by 1 unit left

So, you can figure that
.. g(x) = f(x +1) +6
will represent a translation of 1 unit left and 6 units up of f(x) = -3/x.
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