Answer:
11x + 8 +8x +12 =27 (drop the parenthesis, there's no actual need for them)
19x +20 =27 (i combined like terms and then subtracted 20 from both sides)
19x = 7 (divide both sides by 19 to get x alone)
x= 7/19 or 0.36842105 (the answer)
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