Question

Solve
9x − 5 = 5x + −37
for x.

Answer 1

start by moving all the numbers with x to the left side, and all the numbers without x to the right side:

so, first of all we subtract 5x from both sides:

9x - 5 - 5x = -37

so now the 5x is gone from the right side, now we add 5 to each side, to get rid of the -5 on the left side:

9x - 5x = -37 + 5

then we solve what we can already:

4x = -32

and then we divide each side by 4:

x = -8

hope that helped :)