Question

What is the first step in solving the equation 4x + 2y = 5 for x?

A.
Subtract 2y from both sides of the equation.
B.
Divide both sides of the equation by 5.
C.
Divide both sides of the equation by 4.
D.
Subtract 5 from both sides of the equation.

Answer 1

im thinking its A

Answer 2

Yupp

Answer 3

when solving for x, you would first subtract 2y from both sides. Then you would divide by both sides by 4 to get x by itself:
\[4x+2y=5\]\[-2y -2y\]\[4x=-2y+5\]\[\div4 \div4\]\[x=\frac{ -2 }{ 4 }y+\frac{ 5 }{ 4 }\]\[x=\frac{ -1 }{ 2 }y+\frac{ 5 }{ 4 }\]

and that is as far as you can simplify the equation. hope this helped :)