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X+4b=72. If x=12, what’s the value of b?

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If x=12, then you subtract 12 from 72 and get 60. Then you divide 60 /4 and get 15.

User Alexey Trofimov
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answer: b= 15

step by step:
plug the 12 into the x position to make it 12+4b=72
subtract on both sides to get
4b=60
divide and b=15!
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