How do you solve $3x = 27$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-04T22:40:19

$x=9$

to solve you must get the x alone and we do this by dividing both sides by 3

$(3x)/3=27/3$

then this sets $x$ equal to 9 since 27 divided by 3 is 9.

Answer 2 · 2018-03-04T22:40:22

$x=9$

Our goal in these problems is to solve for the variable. To do that, we must undo any operation that's being applied to the variable.

Right now, our variable $x$ is being multiplied. To isolate it, we must do the inverse operation, division.

We will divide both sides by $3$ to get:
$x=9$

How do you solve 3x = 273x = 27?