Tap the blue circles to see an explanation.
| $$ \begin{aligned}\frac{1}{5}(5x+20-\frac{1}{4}(4x-20))& \xlongequal{ \color{blue}{ \text{\normalsize{ \htmlClass{explanationCircle explanationCircle1}{\textcircled {1}} } }}}\frac{1}{5}(5x+20-\frac{4x-20}{4}) \xlongequal{ } \\[1 em] & \xlongequal{ \color{blue}{ \text{\normalsize{ \htmlClass{explanationCircle explanationCircle2}{\textcircled {2}} } }}}\frac{1}{5}\frac{16x+100}{4} \xlongequal{ } \\[1 em] & \xlongequal{ \color{blue}{ \text{\normalsize{ \htmlClass{explanationCircle explanationCircle3}{\textcircled {3}} } }}}\frac{16x+100}{20}\end{aligned} $$ | |
| ① | Multiply $ \dfrac{1}{4} $ by $ 4x-20 $ to get $ \dfrac{ 4x-20 }{ 4 } $. Step 1: Write $ 4x-20 $ as a fraction by putting $ \color{red}{ 1 } $ in the denominator. Step 2: Multiply numerators and denominators. Step 3: Simplify numerator and denominator. $$ \begin{aligned} \frac{1}{4} \cdot 4x-20 & \xlongequal{\text{Step 1}} \frac{1}{4} \cdot \frac{4x-20}{\color{red}{1}} \xlongequal{\text{Step 2}} \frac{ 1 \cdot \left( 4x-20 \right) }{ 4 \cdot 1 } = \\[1ex] & \xlongequal{\text{Step 3}} \frac{ 4x-20 }{ 4 } \end{aligned} $$ |
| ② | Subtract $ \dfrac{4x-20}{4} $ from $ 5x+20 $ to get $ \dfrac{ \color{purple}{ 16x+100 } }{ 4 }$. Step 1: Write $ 5x+20 $ as a fraction by putting $ \color{red}{ 1 } $ in the denominator. Step 2: To subtract raitonal expressions, both fractions must have the same denominator. |
| ③ | Multiply $ \dfrac{1}{5} $ by $ \dfrac{16x+100}{4} $ to get $ \dfrac{ 16x+100 }{ 20 } $. Step 1: Multiply numerators and denominators. Step 2: Simplify numerator and denominator. $$ \begin{aligned} \frac{1}{5} \cdot \frac{16x+100}{4} & \xlongequal{\text{Step 1}} \frac{ 1 \cdot \left( 16x+100 \right) }{ 5 \cdot 4 } \xlongequal{\text{Step 2}} \frac{ 16x+100 }{ 20 } \end{aligned} $$ |