henry wants to join a book of the month club the first club cost $40 to join and $10 per book the second club cost $15 per book and has no fee to join how many books would need to be purchased from each club for the clubs to cost the same?

example 2 – simplify: step 1: completely factor both the numerators and denominators of all fractions. step 2: change the division sign to a multiplication sign and flip (or reciprocate) the fraction after the division sign; essential you need to multiply by the reciprocal. step 3 : cancel or reduce the fractions.

your answer would be 12