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Simplify: a+1/a - a/a+1

Please help, I think that there might be two answers? Thank you so much!

User Martinezjc
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so what you should do is mulitply
(a+1)/(a) by
(a+1)/(a+1) and multiply
(a)/(a+1) by
(a)/(a)=
((a+1)(a+1))/((a)(a+1))- ((a)(a))/((a)(a+1)) = ((a+1)^(2)-(a^(2)))/((a)(a+1))

WAIT I WILL BE BACK TO CORRECT AFTER DINNER
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