Find the following product. Be sure your answer is in simplest form.

(5b+10)/a * a/5b-15

I am completely lost. I tried to cancel out both of the 5b, and reduce the 10 and -15 by 5 and got 10/-15 then 2/-3 What am I doing wrong?

First thing you're doing wrong is not using parentheses correctly. What you wrote is this:



but I suspect what you meant is this:



Please confirm that I have that right.

You can't cance the b's, because of the +10 term in the first numerator as well as the -15 term in the second denominator. But you can the a's, then divide through by 5: