First, let us look at the denominator.

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Can I get a ( x + A ) * ( X + B ) ?

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Think of the multiplication/addition you would do to result in the 8 and the 9 ...

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Yes! We can simplify.

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x² + 9x + 8 can be simplified into

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                      ( x + 1 ) * ( x + 8 )

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If you distribute to fact check

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                    x² +1x +8x + 8

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Now let us look at the numberator

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-x - 8

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We can change this to match our new denominator by extracting the (-1)

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(-1)( x + 8 )

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Which leaves (-1) on top and then only ( x + 1 ) on bottom!

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ROUGHT DRAFT