Answer:
We start with the equation:
(x^2 - 1)/(x + 1) = 2
We want to rewrite this in standard form.
We can multiply both sides by (x + 1) to get:
((x^2 - 1)/(x + 1))*(x + 1) = 2*(x + 1)
x^2 - 1 = 2*(x + 1) = 2*x + 2
Now we can move all the terms to one side to get:
x^2 - 1 - 2 - 2*x = 0
x^2 - 2*x - 3 = 0
And this is a standard quadratic equation, that we can solve by using the Bhaskara's formula, this will give us the solutions:
Then the two solutions are:
x = (2 + 4)/2 = 3
x = (2 - 4)/2 = -1