Q20 of 51 Page 2

Solve the following equations and verify your answer:


On transposing to LHS



On taking LCM of the denominators, we get



On cross multiplication, we get



On opening the brackets:







On opening the brackets:


Check:


Taking LHS



On substitutingwe get




Taking RHS



On substitutingwe get




We got LHS=RHS

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