Question

What is the solution of the proportion 5/x+4=3/x-2?

Answer 1

one thing you could do is flip both of them first.

Answer 2

or just cross multiply

Answer 3

what do you mean by fliping it

Answer 4

if you have
\[ \frac{5}{x+4} = \frac{3}{x-2} \]
you could write it as
\[ \frac{x+4}{5} = \frac{x-2}{3} \]
maybe this way you can see how to solve it?
I would either cross multiply or
multiply both sides by 15 to get rid of the denominators.

Answer 5

oh ok thx

Answer 6

cross multiplying looks easy:
\[ 5(x-2)= 3(x+4)\]
distribute the 5 on the left side (multiply x and -2 by 5)
distribute the 3 on the right side

what do you get?

Answer 7

yes i do but i tried that way n it did not work

Answer 8

5(x−2)=3(x+4)

what do you get after distributing the 5 and the 3?

Answer 9

oh i earsed it but i got x = 7

Answer 10

5(x−2)=3(x+4)

what do you get after distributing the 5 and the 3?

Answer 11

the flipping way i got x = 11