Question

x-9=6x+5 please help

Answer 1

First, subtract x from both sides. Can you do it? :o)

Answer 2

or u could subtract 5 from both sides

Answer 3

im not sure how to do this at all

Answer 4

ok....

Answer 5

x-9=6x+5
-x -x

-9=5x+5

Does that make sense?

Answer 6

You're trying to get x alone. :o)

Answer 7

lol i know but i am not sure how to do it im no good at math and i need it explained

Answer 8

No problem. You're trying to get x alone, so, you're going to do the opposite operations to both sides.

Example:
+ opposite is -
* opposite is /

Answer 9

Let me show you two steps and you try to do the third.

Answer 10

x-9=6x+5

So here, we're going to get x on the same side first. By doing this, we're going to subtract x from both sides so that x will cancel out on the left:

x-9=6x+5
-x -x

-9=6x+5

Now, we have x on both sides, so we can start to get x alone on the right side. So, do you see how +5 is on the side with the x? So, we're going to -5 from both sides to help get x alone. So:
-9=6x+5
-5 -5

-14=6x

Can you tell me what we're going to do now to get that x alone? It's going to be our last step. :o)