How can you simply this equation? answer choices also in the pic

The numerator and denominator factor as follows

( x + 7)(x - 5)

(x + 7)(x - 3)

so the answer is the second choice.

Fis the domain that we’ll make it better

If you need an equation, it would be y=2x+8, y would be how long it grew, x being weeks.if you need how long he was asleep, it would be 4 weeks if he started with no beard, the equation would be x=8÷2if he did have a beard before hand, the equation would be 2w+x=8