Answer:
only the third answer is right.
Explanation:
to solve it, we need to bring everything to the same denominator (the expression below the division line) or eliminate it completely.
how do we do it ? by multiplying everything with the same expression, so that we can eliminate the denominator for every term.
when looking for the best option I see that
(x² + 5x + 6) = (x + 2)×(x + 3)
that is great, because this covers all 3 denominators in our main expression.
so, we multiply everything by ((x+2)×(x+3)) and eliminate the denominators and the corresponding part of our multiplier.
that leaves us with
x×(x+3) + 2 = 5×(x+2)
now we simply simplify the expression
x² + 3x + 2 = 5x + 10
x² - 8x - 8 = 0
a squared equation has typically 2 solutions. and they are defined as
x = (-b ± sqrt(b² - 4ac)) / (2a)
in our case
a = 1
b = -8
c = -8
x = (8 ± sqrt(64 + 32)) / 2 = (8 ± sqrt(96))/2 =
= (8 ± sqrt(16×6))/2 = (8 ± 4×sqrt(6))/2 = 4 ± 2×sqrt(6)
x1 = 4 + 2×sqrt(6)
x2 = 4 - 2×sqrt(6)
both solutions are different from -2 or -3, therefore -2 and -3 are not solutions at all, and they cannot be extraneous solutions either for that reason.
and since we have 2 perfectly fine solutions, the answer options work no or only one solutions are wrong too.