Plz help I have school tomorrow and I need to do this

Step-by-step explanation:

Step 1: Replace x for 1

Step 2: Simplify

or

step-by-step explanation:

we need to solve for 'x' the following equation:  

we have that:

⇒

⇒ ⇒

factorizing, we get that:

  ⇒

then, the solutions are: or

nothing extraneous has been found!