Question

5x+3y=2x+8

Answer 1

what do you have to do?

Answer 2

solve for x

Answer 3

ok so you wanna get x by itself on the left side of the equation. to do that, we first have to get rid of 3y. how should we do that?

Answer 4

subtract it from the left side

Answer 5

i think u are right so far i ant ood at math sooo

Answer 6

well, you subtract it from both sides. so now we have
5x = 2x - 3y + 8

now we have to get rid of the 2x on the right. how do we do that?

Answer 7

-3x= -8+3y = x= 8/3 +y

Answer 8

wouldnt you combine like terms and get 7x?

Answer 9

no, you would also have to subtract it from both sides
after you do that, you'd get 3x = -3y + 8

Answer 10

we don't 3x, we just want x. so we're going to divide both sides by 3

Answer 11

we don't want 3x*

Answer 12

wouldnt it come out as -8/3

Answer 13

i mean positive

Answer 14

3x = -3y + 8
x = -y + 8/3

Answer 15

so you divide both by -1 and get x=-8/3?

Answer 16

we can't actually solve for x. we can only solve for x in terms of y
x = -y + 8/3 is as close an answer you get without knowing what y is

Answer 17

okay thank you

Answer 18

no problemo :)