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Identifying Missing Factors in Rational Expression Addition

A manufacturing engineer is combining two stress-test models represented by the algebraic expressions:

8x22x3and3xx2+4x+3\frac{8}{x^2 - 2x - 3} \quad \text{and} \quad \frac{3x}{x^2 + 4x + 3}

After factoring the denominators into (x3)(x+1)(x-3)(x+1) and (x+3)(x+1)(x+3)(x+1), the engineer determines the Least Common Denominator (LCD) to be (x+1)(x3)(x+3)(x+1)(x-3)(x+3). To rewrite the second expression (the term with $3x) as an equivalent fraction with this LCD, what specific binomial factor must the numerator $3x be multiplied by?

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