A student read a total of 72 books over the course of a year. Since there are 12 months in a year, how many books did the student average each month?

Divide total books by number of months:

72 / 12 = 6 books per month.

answer: all the values are within because it has a pattern that repeats from -6 to 4.

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the simplified form is

step-by-step explanation:

we want to simplify the expression,

let us change the middle bar to a normal division sign to obtain,

we multiply the first fraction by the reciprocal of the second fraction to obtain,

we factor to obtain,

we cancel the common factors to get,

we simplify to get,

the correct answer is b