its the property of division here is a smell tip, do the opposite of what the sign is telling you. so if its adding you subtract it, and if its subtracting you add it, if its multiplying your dividing and if its dividing your multiplying
Addition and multiplication are commutative property so that mean no.
In this case, you have to do division.
Your answer is 6x = 72
x = 12
Hope this helps :)
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