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Help!!!!

anonymous · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

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kropot72 · Answer

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

anonymous · Answer

you add 2 on both sides???

anonymous · Answer

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

kropot72 · Answer

@brandoduh Let @waterineyes take over :)

anonymous · Answer

okay(:

anonymous · Answer

You carry on @kropot72 

Sorry..

kropot72 · Answer

@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?

anonymous · Answer

yes(: @kropot72

anonymous · Answer

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

anonymous · Answer

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

kropot72 · Answer

@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?

anonymous · Answer

@kropot72 i got the solution already thanks (:

kropot72 · Answer

Cool! You're welcome :)