Somebody help me with this, I forgot how to find the value of x!?

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anonymous · Answer

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tkhunny · Answer

What is wanted?

Solve this? $-3 \le -3x-1 \le 2$

Solve this? -3x-1 = 5

anonymous · Answer

But how did you get those equations? @tkhunny

anonymous · Answer

& the answer is -2?

tkhunny · Answer

1) I'm just making stuff up.  I have no idea what the question is asking.

2) My second guess is startign to look pretty good.  It goes like this:

The segment of the number line that is marked by hte giant horizontal bracket is 5.  -3 to 2 spans 5 units.

We are also given that this span is -3x-1.

If the span is represented by two methods, the expressions for those methods must be the same.  Thus, -3x-1 = 5.  This is easily solved for x.

Let's see what you get.

anonymous · Answer

I don't really get where your going with this.

tkhunny · Answer

I'm not going anywhere with it, except guessing.  As soon as you tell me what the problem statement means, we can talk.