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What is the value of x if 3x-2=13

User Brady Zhu
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The value of x = 5.
3x-2=13
3x=13+2
3x=15
X=15/3
X=5...
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User Kuro
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the value of X is 5

How you would do this is take the -2 and add it to itself and 13 so you now have 3x=15

( 3x-2(+2)=13(+2))

After that take 3 and divide it by 15 which is 5

I hope this helped :)