Hi all, I am new to the community and could use some help solving the following equation, the site will give me the answer but when I click on step by step instructions it will not pull them up, which is what I thought I was paying for 
Solve. ((5)/(p-2))-((7)/(p+2))=((12)/(p^2-4))
Thank you in advance for your help! 
Dear Janet,
it seems to be doing exactly what you are paying for. You probably speak about Wolfram Alpha not Mathematica, I assume. Copying your equation in and hitting enter, you get to a window where you can click on “show steps”. This gives you:
It is not quite clear what went wrong when you did it. Anyway, it works just fine.
Cheers,
Marco
Great, thank you Marco, that is exactly what I was looking for! 
Not sure why it wouldn’t pull up for me, but it continually refused when I clicked on the show steps button. (said no results available, please try your query again) And yes, I was referring to Wolfram Alpha, is Mathematica where I should be to get the steps laid out? This is something that happens to me about 50% of the time. I’d really like to not have to bother others with it. Thanks again.
Hi Janet, this a peculiar bug you have found and we’re looking into it now.
You can see the steps by avoiding the period in your query, i.e. Solve ((5)/(p-2))-((7)/(p+2))=((12)/(p^2-4)): http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Solve+((5)/(p-2))-((7)/(p%2B2))=((12)/(p^2-4))
You have the ability to see step from Wolfram|Alpha and Mathematica, but accessing them through Wolfram|Alpha is encouraged because hints are only available this way.
OK good deal, thank you.
