Complete the corresponding expression in the numerator
Complete the corresponding expression in the numerator
Let's examine the problem:
Now let's think logically, and remember the fraction reduction operation,
Let's start with the numbers:
For the fraction in the left side to be reducible, we want all the numbers in its numerator to have a common factor,
Additionally, we want to reduce the number 15 to get the number 3 in the fraction's denominator after reduction, but we also want that in the fraction's numerator after reduction we'll get the number 2,
For this purpose, we'll represent the number 15 - which is in the denominator of the left side as a product of numbers where one of them is the number 3, also remember that the number which we multiply by 3 in order to get the number 15 is the number 5:
Now we want that after reduction only the number 3 alone remains in the denominator of the fraction on the left side but in the fraction's numerator the number 2 remains, meaning - that the number 5 will be reduced, therefore the obvious choice is the number 10, because:
Let's continue to the letters:
Let's examine the expression again:
We want to reduce the term from the fraction's denominator since in the expression on the right side it doesn't appear and simultaneously get in the numerator of the fraction on the right side the term , note that this term doesn't appear in the expression in the denominator of the fraction on the left side, therefore for the letters we will choose the expression:
In summary, for the letters and numbers together we will choose the expression:
Let's verify that from this choice we indeed get the expression on the right side:
Therefore this choice is indeed correct.
In other words - the correct answer is answer B.