HELP !! Solve for X .

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anonymous · Answer

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arabpride · Answer

Is there any info about the triangle?? like if it's isosceles or sumffing?? *^.^*

anonymous · Answer

@arabpride no , my teacher tried to help me but all she could do was tell me it was a geometric mean question .

arabpride · Answer

Ok OK NP!! *^.^*
Well im not 100% sure but if we're gonna solve for X, we have to assume that:
 8x = 5x + 3
 and that 
 10x - 2 = 7x

This will solve for x

anonymous · Answer

@arabpride where do I go from there ?

anonymous · Answer

Hugh?

arabpride · Answer

sorry abput that i had to log out *^.^* Ill finish thiss now

anonymous · Answer

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arabpride · Answer

well next you have to chose 1 of those 2 equations to work with,
8x = 5x + 3
-5x   -5x

3x = 3
/3      /3

x = 1
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to check that x really does equal one you can try solving the second equation, or pluggin '1' back into the original equation
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BTW are there any options for what x might be *^.^*

arabpride · Answer

@Faith_Rochelle

anonymous · Answer

@arabpride if you plug 1 into the second equation it proves untrue. So it can't be 1 .

arabpride · Answer

the thing iz im not sure if those measures in the second equation are actually congruent so, i can only assume that they are not, since it didnt come out to be tru

anonymous · Answer

@brando1996 @calculusxy @esshotwired @MathLegend @Mr.ClayLordMath does ANYONE know how to solve this ?