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How do you simplify $(5-x)/(x-5)$ ?

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Konstantinos Michailidis

Sep 24, 2015

$-1$

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Explanation:

We have that

$(5-x)/(x-5)=(-(x-5))/(x-5)=-((x-5))/((x-5))=-1$

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