Question

Help!!!!

Answer 1

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Answer 2

8x - 2 = 3x + 18
What happens to both sides of the equation if you add 2 to both sides?

Answer 3

you add 2 on both sides???

Answer 4

Or firstly you can subtract 3x from both the sides so that 3x on RHS will get cancel..

Answer 5

@brandoduh Let @waterineyes take over :)

Answer 6

okay(:

Answer 7

You carry on @kropot72

Sorry..

Answer 8

@waterineyes Not a problem. As often happens there can be more than one way to a solution and some are more efficient than others.
If we add 2 to both sides we get
8x -2 +2 = 3x + 18 + 2
Can you simplify this?

Answer 9

yes(: @kropot72

Answer 10

but their are only 2 ways to find the answer??

Answer 11

There are more but the options are not given in your question for those.. :)

Answer 12

@brandoduh The question that you posted does not appear to restrict the operations to only two. The method I am going thru with you takes 3 operations. Shall we continue with my proposal for a solution?

Answer 13

@kropot72 i got the solution already thanks (:

Answer 14

Cool! You're welcome :)