Question

What is the answer to 2(x-3)=2x+5

Answer 1

what??

Answer 2

Did you try to solve it? what did you do?

Answer 3

I dont know the answer

Answer 4

2(x - 3) = 2x+5
2x - 6 = 2x + 5
- 5 -5
2x - 6 - 5 = 2x
2x -11 = 2x
can you do the rest?

Answer 5

Yea

Answer 6

Thank

Answer 7

np

Answer 8

Hold up am confuse hepl me out

Answer 9

do you know how to solve for x where the exauation would be for examle 45 = x?

Answer 10

No

Answer 11

just need to bring 2 to the other side by deviding 2

Answer 12

now finish off you should know this

Answer 13

Ok

Answer 14

@shinebrightlikeadimon ??? this questions doesn't work hey

@patrice101 there is no solution to this equation, as per below:

2(x-3) =2x+5 (multiply out the brackets)
= 2x - 6 = 2x + 5 (add like terms by moving all the x's to one side)
= 2x - 6 - 2x = 2x + 5 - 2x
= -6 = + 5
and -6 does not equal 5 ...

so ur whole equation doesn't work

Answer 15

anytime you try to solve and get a result like this one - an equation that no longer involves variables, but only numbers, and is clearly false (-6 = 5), then what you have is an "inconsistent equation" and so it has NO solutions. In other words, there are NO values that can be substituted in for x which will make the equation a true statement. it's easy to see why.... once you get to the point:
2x - 6 = 2x + 5 then add the 6 to both sides
2x = 2x + 11
In this form, it's a bit more intuitively obvious that there can be no solution - no value of x can make 2x = 2x + 11.

On the other hand, if you try to solve an equation and reach a point where the variables go away but the equation is TRUE, then the equation is an IDENTITY. E.g.:
2x - 6 = 2(x - 3)
2x - 6 = 2x - 6 subtract 2x from both sides
- 6 = -6 add 6 to both sides
0 = 0
Both - 6= -6 and 0 = 0 are TRUE, so you can see that this is an identity. That means that it has INFINITELY MANY solutions, because it is true for EVERY value of x.