Question

find the value of x for which abcd is a parallelogram 25-3x=3x-17

Answer 1

add 3x to both sides

25 = 6x - 17

add 17 to both sides

42 = 6x

hopefully you can solve it from here

Answer 2

oh gosh thank you that is so obvious now

Answer 3

Jordan.karst, you have to master the concept of like terms

Answer 4

If you have 25 - 3x = 3x - 17

It should be obvious to recognize that 25 and 17 are like terms and 3x and 3x are like terms so putting like terms on the same side produces

25 + 17 = 3x + 3x

Do you get that?

Answer 5

yes thank you

Answer 6

Like terms

1,2,3,4,5 are like terms because they all have the same no variables because they are integers

1x, 2x, 3x, 4x....are like terms because they all have the same variable, x

1y, 2y, 3y, 4y....27y are like terms because they all have the same variable, y

1xy, 2xy, 3xy, ....50xy are like terms because they all have the same variables xy

2x^2, 3x^2, 4x^2...are like terms because they all have the same variables x^2

and so on...