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    MHB Wacky explanation in a student solutions manual for manipulating an equation

    Thanks everybody. Certainly makes sense now.
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    MHB Wacky explanation in a student solutions manual for manipulating an equation

    In the answer book to Stewart's College Algebra 4th Edition, question 47 in Review for Chapter 2, it takes me, in a distance/rate/time problem, from 4/(r+8) + 2.5/(r) = 1 (which I got), to this common denominator procedure: "Multiplying by 2r(r+8), we get..." WHERE DID THEY GET THE "2"? It...
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