1969 AHSME Problems/Problem 1

Problem

When $x$ is added to both the numerator and denominator of the fraction $\frac{a}{b},a \ne b,b \ne 0$ , the value of the fraction is changed to $\frac{c}{d}$ . Then $x$ equals:

$\text{(A) } \frac{1}{c-d}\quad \text{(B) } \frac{ad-bc}{c-d}\quad \text{(C) } \frac{ad-bc}{c+d}\quad \text{(D) }\frac{bc-ad}{c-d} \quad \text{(E) } \frac{bc+ad}{c-d}$

Solution

$\frac{a+x}{b+x}=\frac{c}{d}$ ,

$bc+cx=ad+dx$ ,

$(c-d)x=ad-bc$ ,

$x=\frac{ad-bc}{c-d}$ . The answer is $\fbox{B}$ .

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