Question

What is the x value in the proportion x/x-6 = 4/7? This is really confusing me since I cross multiplied

Answer 1

Yes! cross multiply
what do you get?

Answer 2

-24 and 7x

Answer 3

\[\frac{x}{x-6}= \frac{4}{7}\]\[7x = 4 (x-6)\]

Answer 4

\[7x = 4x - 24\]
Is this clear?

Answer 5

that's what i did wrong. i multiplied x-6 and 4 the wrong way.

Answer 6

Yeah! hope you can continue from here..
can you?

Answer 7

we distribute 4(x-6)

like a(b-c) = ab -ac