Question

how do u do this.. i for got how plz help!

4x - 10
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-2

Answer 1

- 5/4 is the answer
I hope I helped.

Answer 2

how did u get the answer...

Answer 3

You need to get x on one side of the equation.

Answer 4

isnt it already?

Answer 5

Well, if you do not have it equal to something, it is a bit hard to know what the solution should be. If there is nothing other than the fraction....

Answer 6

\[\frac{ 4x-10 }{-2 }\] is all you have?

Answer 7

Graphical form: simplifies to
Text form: 4*x-10/-2 simplifies to 4*x+5
Look at 4x-10/(-2).
Removed extra sign in front of
It becomes .4*x+5
Result:
4*x+5

Answer 8

I tried

Answer 9

:l ...can u like teach me how to do this step by step? i compleately for got how to do this

Answer 10

@e.mccormick ya thats the whole question..

Answer 11

If it says to graph it, solve for y, or something else, then there are steps. Same for simplify, and so on. But with just an equation and no directions of what to do with it....

Answer 12

it says Use the distributive property to simplify the expression below:

Answer 13

Aaaah. Well, write the fraction as teo seperate fractions, then simplify.

Answer 14

so.. 4x ova -2 & -10 ova -2??

Answer 15

Yes. Now, simlify those.

Answer 16

\[\frac{ 4x }{-2 }-\frac{ 10 }{-2 }\] is basically where you are at. So what is next...

Answer 17

this is gunna sound stupid but how do u simplify that?

Answer 18

Well, you have fractions with a 2 in the bottom. So what is half of th top numbers? Then do not forget the negative sign.

Answer 19

-5 ova -1?

Answer 20

for the right..

Answer 21

Which also means? Two negatives makes a?

Answer 22

+?

Answer 23

Yes.

Answer 24

If you think about that part like division, a -1 gopes into -5 all of five times, so the negative goes away. How is the left part going?

Answer 25

2x ova -1??

Answer 26

Yes. So what happens to the negative there?

Answer 27

i dnt kno

Answer 28

Let me put it another way. What is anuthing over 1? So \[\frac{ 6 }{1 }\] or \[\frac{ N }{1 }\] or anything.

Answer 29

2 over 1? now uv confuzzed me >_<

Answer 30

Sry bout that. It is like dividing by 1. Anything divided by 1 is itself. BUT, you have a negative, and you can not just get rid of the negative, so it has to stay. That help?

Answer 31

no...but so the answr is

Answer 32

That is not quite the simplified form. Very, very close. You just need to deal with the -1s.

Answer 33

how

Answer 34

Above we talked about how \[\frac{ -5 }{ -1 } = 5\]

Answer 35

so 2x = 5??

Answer 36

So if we do at leas that much, we get \[\frac{ 2x }{ -1 }+5\]
Now what do you think happens to the left part?

Answer 37

were do u get the + from

Answer 38

Not quite. You lost the negative.

In multiplication or division, the nuber f negatives is key to if you have a negative or a positive. Two negatives is a positive, Three negatives is a negatrive. So on and so forth. 54 negatives is positive because there is an even number. So if I were dividing or mutiplying all of 54 numbers and they were all negatives....

Answer 39

ok i get it now...uhh thx?

Answer 40

Kk. I was going to say http://www.mathsisfun.com/multiplying-negatives.html might explain it better. So, what do you have for a final answer when you keep the one negative and change the other to a positive?