How do you solve #\frac { 1} { 4} ( 5x + 4) - \frac { 22} { 3} = \frac { 14} { 3}#?
2 Answers
Explanation:
First multiply both sides by
Divide both sides by
Explanation:
Let's start with the original equation:
We can use the Distributive Property to simplify the left side:
We can now simplify the left side even further by multiplying the
Now, we can move all the constants over to the right side. Let's start by adding
We now subtract
And then we multiply both sides by
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Checking:
Being good mathematicians, we should always check our answers by substituting the value we got for the variable back into the locations of the variable in the original equation. Here, in this problem, we should substitute